Police attacked in S. China over controversial death

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-07-18 20:30

After a spot investigation for an hour, the police decided to take the motorcycle back to police station and send the driver's body to funeral home. But they were stopped by the victim's friends.

The family members of the dead driver arrived at the site at about 7 a.m., and they believed Ouyang was beaten to death by the security guards of Shangnan Village. They demanded that nobody should move the body before the murderers were caught and punished.

More and more people gathered at the site. Then, more than 100 people, including the victim's family members, hometown fellows and a number of people who had no knowledge of what had actually happened, staged an attack, the county spokesman said.

Local authorities are investigating whether Ouyang's death was a traffic accident or a result of the security guards' beating as claimed by the victims' family members, the spokesman said.

They are also investigating whether Ouyang had conflicts with the security guards, whether Ouyang had been chased by them when the traffic accident happened, whether the security guards charged "protection fees" from the driver and other issues, the spokesman added.

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