Irate residents storm local office
By Xu Chi |
May 29, 2012, Tuesday
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ANGRY residents of Rui'an City in east China's Zhejiang Province vandalized cars and rushed in to a government office, smashing windows, yesterday morning to protest over the death of a resident, the city government said.
Video clips uploaded by witnesses on the microblog weibo.com show a group of youngsters smashing windows of cars at a parking lot near the government office and then turning them over one by one.
Hundreds of other residents came on to the street to watch them smashing the cars, some egging them on until police arrived, the videos show.
According to the city government, the protest was sparked by an incident on May 12 when a Hunan Province worker fought with a company official in a salary dispute. The worker, Yang Zhi, 20, was seriously injured in the head during the fight, while the company official, Xu Qiyin, 39, fled the scene.
Police launched an investigation into the incident and Xu turned himself in to police two days later. He was then detained by police on May 15.
In the meantime, Yang died in hospital on May 26 due to the severe head injury after surgeries failed to revive him.
The city's sub-district government officials tried to mediate with Yang's family over compensation for his death, but the family rejected the government's offer.
The family then gathered about 200 fellow villagers to protest at the government office this morning, demanding punishment for Xu and a better compensation offer.
But some of the protesters began vandalizing cars and then rushed into the government office, smashing windows.
Video clips uploaded by witnesses on the microblog weibo.com show a group of youngsters smashing windows of cars at a parking lot near the government office and then turning them over one by one.
Hundreds of other residents came on to the street to watch them smashing the cars, some egging them on until police arrived, the videos show.
According to the city government, the protest was sparked by an incident on May 12 when a Hunan Province worker fought with a company official in a salary dispute. The worker, Yang Zhi, 20, was seriously injured in the head during the fight, while the company official, Xu Qiyin, 39, fled the scene.
Police launched an investigation into the incident and Xu turned himself in to police two days later. He was then detained by police on May 15.
In the meantime, Yang died in hospital on May 26 due to the severe head injury after surgeries failed to revive him.
The city's sub-district government officials tried to mediate with Yang's family over compensation for his death, but the family rejected the government's offer.
The family then gathered about 200 fellow villagers to protest at the government office this morning, demanding punishment for Xu and a better compensation offer.
But some of the protesters began vandalizing cars and then rushed into the government office, smashing windows.
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