A teacher of Yangchang Township Middle School in Southwest China's Yunnan Province joined in a students' gang fight on Friday, which led to five injuries, Yanzhao Metropolis Daily reports.

The fight resulted from a tug-of-war competition which was held in the school's Winter Sports Meet last month, in which Class 60 won the contest over Class 61.

The latter claimed their rivals cheated in the contest since Class 60 had two more students joining in the competition. The unsatisfying result irritated the students of Class 61 and sparked the fight, which was cracked down on by school officials.

The unfair contest stirred a second gang fight between the two classes on Friday, in which the teacher of class 61 surnamed Sun, with a kitchen knife in his hand, threw himself into the thick of the fray.

As the parents of an injured student filed complaints to the teacher, he took his forelock and attempted to beat them. Sun was stopped by the police who came in time and has been taken into custody for further investigation.

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