CHINA-INTERNAL: SOCIAL STABILITY
The official Xinhua news agency almost 1,000 local people protested outside the Huadong Supermarket in Yongchang's county town, overturning police cars and beating up Jinchang's mayor Zhang Yinghua, after a 13-year-old girl and resident of Yongchang county in Gansu province, jumped from the top of a tall building on Monday after being accused of shoplifting. Armed police were dispatched to disperse the crowd provoking clashes with local people. |