Thousands attack local Chengguan officials in East China, couple infected with AIDS by tainted blood in a local hospital, and sea turns blue fluorescent.

Thousands attack Chengguan officials

Thousands of local residents gathered in a town in East China Saturday after an online rumor claimed that a peddler was beaten to death by city enforcement officials, or Chengguan.

Crowds began to gather in Lingxi Town, Cangnan County, Wenzhou City of Zhejiang province, after the peddler was beaten around 9 am. The county government later denied the rumor that the man surnamed Huang was dead, saying he was in stable condition after hospital treatment.

Infuriated by the online rumor, the mob managed to besiege an official van and began beating the five employees inside the vehicle. Two of them were injured seriously and are in critical condition.

Local government said the five officials were not formal employees, but temporary helpers.

At around 4 pm, police intervened and tried to disperse the crowd, but was only able to restore order by 8 pm.

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Sea turns blue fluorescent

Blue fluorescent waves off Daheishi beach in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province are attracting many visitors, reported Dalian Evening News on Saturday.

Although a rare sight in Dalian, aggregation of luminous bacteria or alga usually makes water turn fluorescent, according to Wang Bin, lecturer, Dalian Ocean University.

Party chief, mayor of Beijing volunteer at library

Party chief of Beijing Guo Jinlong and his mayor Wang Anshun volunteered for more than one hour at the Capital library of China Saturday morning, four days before the World Reading Day (April 23). They maintained such a low profile that nobody was able to recognize them.

 

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Couple infected with AIDS

A couple in East China's Anhui province was infected with AIDS after a county hospital transfused tainted blood to the wife.

The wife was diagnosed with AIDS in May 2008 and died in July. At the beginning of 2012, the husband also almost lost the ability to work after the disease took hold.

The husband had filed a lawsuit against the hospital that year, demanding more than two million yuan in compensation. The court ruled 300,000 yuan in compensation for him. The ruling was upheld by the provincial supreme court Saturday.

2,000 cases of yoghurt stolen

Hundreds of people looted 2,000 cases of yoghurt, including the cartons, after a truck carrying the goods flipped over on the national road off Kowloon Ridge in South China's Fujian province, according to www.mnw.cn, a southern Fujian website, on Sunday.

Instead of helping, the onlookers helped themselves, with one of them quoted as saying, "you'll be a fool if you don't take these for free."

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Forest fire put out?in Yunnan

A forest fire that broke out three days ago was put out by 4,700 firefighters and soldiers on Saturday in Southwest China's Yunnan province, local authorities said. The fire raged through an area of 210 hectares, but no casualties have been reported, according to sources with Kunming city's forest fire prevention headquarters.An investigation into the cause of the fire is underway.

Seven killed in factory blast?in Jiangsu

Rescuers found another body at Shuangma Chemical Plant in Rugao city, Jiangsu province, bringing the death toll of the accident to seven, the local authority said on Saturday. Nine other people who were injured are receiving hospital treatment. An investigation into the cause of Wednesday's blast is ongoing.

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Tap water not tainted by oil?in Hunan

A moving oil slick on Xiangjiang River has reached Changsha, the capital of Central China's Hunan province, provincial authorities said on Saturday. However, monitoring data from the provincial environment protection authorities showed that the drinking water in the cities of Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan met national standards. An investigation found that a dredger that sank on Thursday was the cause of the oil slick.

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