Student arraigned for disfiguring classmate with petrol fire

By Li Qian | April 23, 2012, Monday |

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A 17-year-old high school student who poured petrol on his adored female classmate and set her on fire was brought to court this morning on charges of intentional injury.

Tao Rukun, a teenager in Hefei, capital of eastern Anhui Province, has admired his classmate Zhou Yan for a long time but failed to win her heart. Feeling spurned, Tao decided to disfigure the girl this past February.

Prosecutors said Zhou got ravaged in her face and neck and suffered burns covering 30 percent of her body surface, China National Radio reported.

Zhou's aunt Li Yun insisted that Tao should be charged with attempted murder but prosecutors disagreed.

To avoid the infection of her wounds, Zhou traveled with an air cleaner on her way from a Beijing hospital back to Hefei. She had a surgery on April 10.

The court hearing is still ongoing, the report said.

Nation

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Student arraigned for disfiguring classmate with petrol fire

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