A man and his wife were arrested for holding his elderly mother hostage for 30 hours in Shanghai, according to the Oriental Morning Post.

The man surnamed Dai had a fierce dispute with his father after Dai and his wife asked to put their names on his father's apartment title. In February, the young couple held Dai's mother as a hostage and asked her to give up the property right. The mother tried running away twice but was seized by her son. Dai bound his mother's hands and feet tightly to prevent her from running away again and the couple held knives to her throat, reported the newspaper.

Thirty hours later policemen smashed open the window and saved the mother.