Chinese man killed in flat after police officer fires into the air to stop street dispute
Officer suspended as inquiry launched into shooting in Foshan
A man in southern China was shot dead in his apartment after a police officer trying to resolve a dispute in the street below fired warning shots into the air, a newspaper reported.
A neighbour said the man may have put his head out of the window to see what the commotion was and was hit by a bullet, the Southern Metropolis News reported.
The unnamed man’s body was not found until his family returned home hours later and saw him lying in a pool of blood, according to the article.
Police in Foshan in Guangdong province are investigating the incident on Wednesday and a police officer has been suspended, the newspaper said.
A witness living downstairs from the victim was quoted as saying that police arrived in the neighbourhood on Wednesday afternoon when a couple of tenants at a nearby market started fighting with weapons with property management officials in a dispute over rents.