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Police microblog fails to quiet rumor on murder
By Zhang Xuanchen |
December 28, 2010, Tuesday
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NETIZENS are still calling for police of Yueqing City, Zhejiang Province to reveal more details of the death of a village leader killed in a hit-and-run accident as they said he might be murdered for accusing officials of land abuse.
Internet users of several Chinese online forums, including Tianya.cn and Sina.com.cn said they are still "kept in dark" as authorities didn't disclose key evidence, such as the phone recording of Qian Yunhui, 53, who was run over by a van on a drizzling Saturday morning.
His elder daughter said Qian was asked at some 8am by a township official, surnamed Xie, to go to the fatal spot, reported the Chinese Business News on Tuesday. Some villagers told Nanfang Daily that a witness Qian Chengwei said four to five uniformed safety guards jumped to pin Qian Yunhui onto the path upon his arrival. An unknown man standing on roadside waved his arm, apparently directing the van to run over Qian. At the sight of Qian, whose neck nearly split from his body under the wheels, the men left before police came to the spot, the newspaper said on Tuesday.
The witness Qian Chengwei and Qian's elder daughter have been taken away by police for "investigation", whose release schedule was not given by police, according to Nanfang Daily. An earlier report by China Youth Daily said villagers's phones were bugged by local officials ordering them to shut up.
The Chinese Business News quoted an unnamed villager saying that many volunteers in umbrellas blocked roads to the spot to protect evidence after the accident. They ran into conflict with some one hundred policemen coming to take the Qian's body away at 2pm on Saturday. The policemen were first hindered by the crowds. More policemen joined the group and finally gained the corpse.
Yueqing police said on Monday's press conference they have detained six villagers, including Qian's younger daughter and her husband, for allegedly causing social disorder due to the confict, which left five policemen injured.
Many netizens also expressed doubts over Yueqing police's what they called "over-action". Several Internet users said they wondered why the police and government officials paid "such great attention" for what they dubbed "a common traffic accident". Yueqing police underlined Qian's death has nothing to do with any plotted murder at a press conference on Monday.
Yueqing Police has opened a microblog and said in its first post on http://t.sina.com.cn/1909545300 that they welcome public supervision and will update information immediately. The microblog posted at 8:09pm yesterday has attracted more than 25,360 follow-up comments and was forwarded 15,650 times by 5pm today. Most comment makers said they were angry and waiting for justice to be done.
Netizens also expressed their doubts over the surveillance camera, which was installed to overlook the path where the accident occurred but didn't take any record that day. The camera's producer, the Yueqing branch of China Mobile Co, said it couldn't take record as it was just installed with incomplete function.
Wenzhou City government, which oversees Yueqing, said on Tuesday that they will directly probe Qian's case and any official who broke law or neglected duty will be "severely punished".
The driver, Fei Liangyu, and his co-driver, Huang Biao have been detained, according to Yueqing police. Huang could face administrative penalty as he tried to cover up for Fei to cheat for car insurance.
Internet users of several Chinese online forums, including Tianya.cn and Sina.com.cn said they are still "kept in dark" as authorities didn't disclose key evidence, such as the phone recording of Qian Yunhui, 53, who was run over by a van on a drizzling Saturday morning.
His elder daughter said Qian was asked at some 8am by a township official, surnamed Xie, to go to the fatal spot, reported the Chinese Business News on Tuesday. Some villagers told Nanfang Daily that a witness Qian Chengwei said four to five uniformed safety guards jumped to pin Qian Yunhui onto the path upon his arrival. An unknown man standing on roadside waved his arm, apparently directing the van to run over Qian. At the sight of Qian, whose neck nearly split from his body under the wheels, the men left before police came to the spot, the newspaper said on Tuesday.
The witness Qian Chengwei and Qian's elder daughter have been taken away by police for "investigation", whose release schedule was not given by police, according to Nanfang Daily. An earlier report by China Youth Daily said villagers's phones were bugged by local officials ordering them to shut up.
The Chinese Business News quoted an unnamed villager saying that many volunteers in umbrellas blocked roads to the spot to protect evidence after the accident. They ran into conflict with some one hundred policemen coming to take the Qian's body away at 2pm on Saturday. The policemen were first hindered by the crowds. More policemen joined the group and finally gained the corpse.
Yueqing police said on Monday's press conference they have detained six villagers, including Qian's younger daughter and her husband, for allegedly causing social disorder due to the confict, which left five policemen injured.
Many netizens also expressed doubts over Yueqing police's what they called "over-action". Several Internet users said they wondered why the police and government officials paid "such great attention" for what they dubbed "a common traffic accident". Yueqing police underlined Qian's death has nothing to do with any plotted murder at a press conference on Monday.
Yueqing Police has opened a microblog and said in its first post on http://t.sina.com.cn/1909545300 that they welcome public supervision and will update information immediately. The microblog posted at 8:09pm yesterday has attracted more than 25,360 follow-up comments and was forwarded 15,650 times by 5pm today. Most comment makers said they were angry and waiting for justice to be done.
Netizens also expressed their doubts over the surveillance camera, which was installed to overlook the path where the accident occurred but didn't take any record that day. The camera's producer, the Yueqing branch of China Mobile Co, said it couldn't take record as it was just installed with incomplete function.
Wenzhou City government, which oversees Yueqing, said on Tuesday that they will directly probe Qian's case and any official who broke law or neglected duty will be "severely punished".
The driver, Fei Liangyu, and his co-driver, Huang Biao have been detained, according to Yueqing police. Huang could face administrative penalty as he tried to cover up for Fei to cheat for car insurance.
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