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发帖数: 3809 | 1 China's heat wave brings 'dead' man back to life
BY IAN MADER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING -- Having the dead guy jump up for a drink probably wasn't part of
the script.
A staged protest claiming that city officials had beaten a sidewalk vendor
to death in central China went awry when the man playing dead under a white
sheet was overcome by the region's heat wave and sprang up to quaff a bottle
of water, state media reported Monday.
"It's too hot. I can't bear it anymore," the man was quoted as saying by
state-run Xinhua News Agency.
More than 10 men had gathered Saturday with a gurney that purportedly
carried the vendor's body, covered by a sheet, in the Hubei provincial
capital Wuhan. They were demanding tens of thousands of yuan (thousands of
dollars) in compensation for the alleged death, Xinhua said.
The incident drew 300 onlookers and about 80 police officers.
It was not immediately clear how the group intended to press their claims
without submitting the body for an investigation and autopsy. In any case,
the game was up when the man — as Xinhua reported — jumped up after two
hours under the sheet.
The man on the gurney was identified only by his surname Han, and he has
been detained for disturbing social order, said a district administration
official in Wuhan contacted by telephone. She refused to give her name.
Han told the police that urban management workers — known as "chengguan" —
clashed with the group of vendors earlier Saturday after telling them that
their drinks stands were blocking traffic, Xinhua said.
Many members of China's public have long resented the heavy-handed tactics
of the country's chengguan. Though they have no legal authority to use force
, they are often accused of beating people who commit minor infractions in
shows of power that have fueled social tension, triggered riots and
aggravated public discontent against the government.
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