Video | ‘Crippled’ beggar in China exposed as fraud after his trousers are pulled off

A “crippled” beggar in northwest China has been exposed as a fraud in an online video that has quickly gone viral.

The video shows the beggar wheeling himself around in a trolley, asking for hand-outs on a street in the city of Altay, Xinjiang, according to a report posted on People’s Daily’s WeChat account on Sunday.

The man’s legs appeared to have been amputated.

Watch: ‘Crippled’ beggar exposed

But a passer-by, convinced that the beggar was faking his disability, pulled off the latter’s trousers to expose his legs tucked into his underwear.