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A shrine to Luo Yunying, 57, who was killed while picking tea leaves on a mountain in Hunan province. Photo: SCMP Pictures
A local official has turned himself in to the police after shooting a villager to death while hunting wild boar on a mountain in Hunan province where tea is planted.
Luo Yunying, 57, from Yangjiao village in Hengyang city, left home to pick tea leaves on Sunday morning, but never came back for lunch as she usually does.
About seven hours later, she was found dead lying under a tea tree, the Beijing News reported. Local police said she suffered gunshot wounds to her head and lungs.
Xiao Weidong, who works for the food and drug administration bureau of Hengyang city, turned himself in to the police on Sunday afternoon, saying that he “accidentally” injured a person when he was hunting with friends.
Luo’s son, Dong Changwu, told the South China Morning Post over the phone that he had found one gunshot wound in his mom’s head and two others on her body, but that he had been told an autopsy report would not be available for 20 days.
Dong said he felt extremely angry and confused over his mother’s death.
“Villagers said they have heard gunshots at 9am, but the official only turned [himself] in to police at 3pm,” he said. “If he had called the police earlier, my mom could have been sent to hospital in time. Maybe she could have survived.
“Four days passed, and no official came to reach us, though I … called various departments, until it had been reported by the media” yesterday.
Villagers told the Beijing News that eight people arrived at the mountain in three cars, one of which was a government-owned public vehicle,
Local police said they were still investigating who else took part in the hunting trip, which was illegal as it was taking place in what is considered a residential area.
The municipal government of Hengyang declined to comment on the incident.
The shooting is the latest case of a Chinese official killing someone while on a hunting trip. In November 2008, the former deputy party secretary of Tacheng city in Xinjiang mistook a couple for a pair of wild boars and shot one of them dead and seriously injured the other. He was convicted of unpremeditated manslaughter and sentenced to four years in jail, Xinhua reported.
The victim, Luo Yunying.An arrest warrant has been issued for a civil servant who shot a villager during a wild boar hunt in a mountainous village in Hengdong county, Hunan province, just over a week ago.
The case sparked widespread public concern after it was revealed that the official, Xiao Weidong, was hunting with 10 other people, most of them government employees. Villagers said the officials used government vehicles for the trip.
An official statement issued yesterday by the authorities in Hengyang , which oversees the county, disclosed the identities of the 11 members of the party. It also said they used private cars and fired only one shot.
Xiao, who works in the food and beverage department of the Hengyang food and drug administration, turned himself in to the police on November 9 after "accidentally" killing the 57-year-old woman, Luo Yunying, earlier that day, the statement said.
A notice by the local government said Xiao got the gun from a retired cadre surnamed Ouyang, who was a former director of a local sports bureau, the Beijing News reported.
Dong Changwu, the dead woman's son, told the South China Morning Post that the official statement was inconsistent with the facts.
"First of all, many villagers said they heard two gunshots instead of just one, as claimed by authorities," Dong said.
"Second, they said my mother's wounds proved there was just one shot, but I found the wounds were not made from the same direction."
He said his mother had one gunshot wound to her head and two others to her body. He was also told that a postmortem report would not be available for 20 days.
"How could they be so sure that she died from just one shot without an autopsy report?" he said.
The government's version was also inconsistent with what locals said at the time of the incident. The authorities said Xiao "mistook" Luo for a boar and shot her at around noon, while locals said they heard two shots at around 10am.
"All this is questionable. The police did nothing between November 9 and 13. What was done during this period? Were there any scapegoats?" Dong asked.
