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Chinese man, under pressure to get a girlfriend, crawls into woman’s bed on train

Migrant worker says he felt under pressure from family to bring girlfriend home for Lunar New Year holiday, newspaper reports

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A file picture of train passengers in Chongqing making their way home ahead of the Lunar New Year travel rush earlier this month. Photo: Xinhua
Josh Ye

A Chinese man desperate to bring home a girlfriend for the Lunar New Year holiday crawled into the bed of a woman he had never met on a night train bound for his home town, according to a newspaper report.

The migrant worker in his 30s was arrested for sexual assault after the incident on the train travelling from Chongqing to Sichuan province, the Chongqing Daily reported.

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The woman whose bed he sneaked into was a college student. She was in a bunk bed in the same cabin as the man when the incident took place on Tuesday, the article said.

The woman said she met him in the cabin for the first time earlier that day and he tried to flirt with her. She rejected his advances.

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Later at about 2am when she was half sleep, he crawled into her bed and tried to kiss her, according to the woman.

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