China: Mass Anger Over Girl’s Death

eurasiareview.com

December 6, 2011

The death of 10-year-old girl in a Xian traffic accident sparked clashes between angry local residents and police last week, local residents said on Monday.

Coming just weeks after the tragic death of Guangdong toddler Wang Yue in a hit-and-run accident, the death of fourth-grader Xu Yueqi under the wheels of a slag truck ignited popular anger, prompting hundreds of people to riot, overturning police cars.

Since Xu’s funeral, a 21-year-old man was also killed by a similar truck, bringing the total number of deaths in Xian this year linked to similar trucks to 47.

A Xian resident surnamed Yang said the riots had been fueled by the large number of bystanders at the scene of the accident.

“After the slag truck ran over a girl and killed her, there were a lot of bystanders at the scene,” Yang said. “Two police cars that arrived at the scene and were trying to clear a passage through the crowd got rocked and overturned.”

“There have already been 40 or 50 people killed after being run over by these slag trucks so far in the past 10 months,” Yang added.

“The people of Xian are very angry,” he said. “Too many people have been killed and so they probably couldn’t take it any more.” Read more…

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Xi’an (en sinogrammes simplifiés : 西安 ; en sinogrammes traditionnels : 西安 ; en pinyin : Xī’ān, traduction littérale : « paix occidentale ») est la capitale de la province du Shaanxi en Chine. Elle a le statut de ville sous-provinciale. Elle compte plus de quatre millions d’habitants

~ par Alain Bertho sur 6 décembre 2011.

Publié dans émeutes, riots, 暴動