Around the nation: Chinese teen saves lives of two workers trapped in sewer
Also, man kidnaps woman stranger to bring home for the Lunar New Year and granny’s itchy fingers caught on camera
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 12 February, 2015, 8:33pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 12 February, 2015, 8:36pm
The 18-year-old college student visits the two sanitary workers whose lives he saved by pulling them out of a sewer and giving them CPR. Photo: Rednet.cn
BEIJING
Subway suicide
The Beijing subway service was suspended for 50 minutes during the morning rush hour on Wednesday after a man was hit by an oncoming train, The Beijing News reports. The man, in his 50s, was declared dead after he was pulled out from underneath the train. Surveillance footage showed that the man had jumped off the platform on his own accord, a subway employee said.
Polluting plants to shut
The Beijing municipal government will shut another 300 factories this year to further cut pollution in the city, Xinhua reports. The factories are from 12 polluting industries, including metal casting and forging, and furniture manufacturing. President Xi Jinping had earlier this week urged the city to transfer more of its "non-capital" functions to neighbouring Hebei and Tianjin .
CHONGQING
Shoplifting granny
A woman in her 50s was caught stealing snacks from a grocery store while shopping with her grandson, the Chongqing Chen Bao reports. Surveillance footage showed the woman taking the last two packs of beef jerky from a shelf and putting them into her bag before telling the store assistant that the product was out of stock. The store owner later discovered that the woman frequently stole goods - including cooking oil, carrots and chocolate - from her shop.
Death-defying plunge
A truck driver miraculously survived after his vehicle plunged 30 metres off a flyover on the city's outskirts on Wednesday, the Chongqing Evening News reports. The truck had crashed into guard rails along the 30-metre-high flyover before falling to the ground. A passenger is receiving treatment for severe head injuries. The accident apparently occurred because the driver was unfamiliar with the road.
HUBEI
Poisoned by leftovers
An 80-year-old Xiangyang woman died after eating leftover food, the Chutian Metropolis Daily reports. The woman started vomiting and later lost consciousness after she and her 42-year-old daughter ate a three-day-old radish dish. The daughter, who also felt sick after the meal, survived. Doctors said they were likely poisoned by nitrates that had formed in the leftover food.
Missing boy found dead
One of two seven-year-old boys, reported missing almost a week ago, has been found dead while the other is being treated in a hospital, the Xiangyang Evening News reports. Their parents had reported them missing on February 5, and they were eventually found trapped in a narrow space between two houses near their homes.
HUNAN
Wrong medication
A Zhuzhou woman fell into a coma and is in critical condition after taking anti-depressants she had bought from Thailand, the Changsha Evening Newspaper reports. The woman had a few drinks before taking the drugs and went to bed on Tuesday and has not woken since. The woman had apparently bought the drugs on a recent trip to Thailand, believing they were weight-loss pills. Doctors said the pills were in fact anti-depressants and that the alcohol might have amplified their effect.
Teen saves two
An 18-year-old college student has saved the lives of two sanitary workers trapped in a sewer, the Changsha Evening Newspaper reports. With help from others, the student pulled out the two workers after he found them stuck in the sewer. He also performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the pair, who had inhaled too much methane. Both workers are now in stable condition.
JIANGSU
Debtor fakes death
Xuzhou police have arrested a man suspected of killing a homeless man and being involved in insurance fraud, the Procuratorial Daily reports. Niu Guangjun, who owed debts totalling 600,000 yuan (HK$756,000), bought 2 million yuan of life insurance last year. When pressured for payment in May, he allegedly killed a homeless man, put the body in his car and set the vehicle on fire to fake his death. He had hoped his family would receive his insurance payout.
Alcohol coma
A 21-year-old Yangzhou woman is in critical condition after taking too much alcohol, the Modern Express reports. The woman had passed out after drinking more than 750 grams of baijiu, or Chinese liquor, at her company's annual lunch. Her colleagues took her to hospital after she failed to regain consciousness. Doctors said she had severe alcohol poisoning, which is potentially fatal.
LIAONING
How to bring a girl home
Dalian police have arrested a 32-year-old man for kidnapping a woman whom he wanted to take home for the Lunar New Year, the New Culture Post reports. The man said he did not know the 24-year-old woman but had kidnapped her because his parents were pressuring him to get married and his relationships had not worked out.
Killed for cash
Jilin police have arrested a man suspected of killing three of his relatives late last month, the New Culture Post reports. The man allegedly killed his 74-year-old sister, niece and his sister's granddaughter with an axe and a knife. Neighbours said the man often visited and demanded money from his sister, who repeatedly rejected him. Two policemen were injured while apprehending the suspect.
SHAANXI
Bank transfer 'error'
A Xian woman found that she received only 110,000 yuan after asking a bank teller to transfer 120,000 yuan into her account, Huashang Daily reports. The bank apologised, saying that the teller had mistakenly transferred the remaining 10,000 yuan into her own bank account. The teller had mixed up her own bank card with the customer's card - which were both on the table - when she was making the transfer, the bank said.
Rage over rejection
Yulin police on Wednesday arrested a man for killing his ex-wife after she refused to remarry him, Huashang Daily reports. The couple had divorced in 2011, two years after their marriage, after the man beat up the woman. He has since repeatedly harassed her, demanding that she remarry him, and she had to move from time to time to avoid him. The man stabbed the woman to death on Sunday before turning himself in.
ZHEJIANG
Cruel captor
A 52-year-old man, surnamed Hu, and two others kept a businessman captive for three months before drowning him in a cage in a reservoir in 2012, a Hangzhou court heard on Wednesday, the Qianjiang Evening News reports. Hu allegedly extorted 6.2 million yuan from the victim's family in the three months the man was held captive. He escaped to Thailand but was extradited back to China in 2013.
Who's your daddy?
A drug abuser in Quzhou mistook a policeman for her father when she was questioned while high, the Qianjiang Evening News reports. The woman began hallucinating while being interrogated by the police officer, and called him "dad" while asking him where she was. The policeman played along and pretended to be her father in order to get her to talk.
