Tuesday marked this year’s Qixi Festival - or “China’s Valentine’s Day”- but a sad video clip circulating online reveals how a man desperate for love ended up being electrocuted in a terrible accident.
He then falls from the tower after losing his grip. As he plunges down, the man repeatedly hits the tower’s steel frames.
The victim was aged 30 and surnamed Liu. He was a Jiangsu migrant worker living in Changzhou, police said. Liu climbed to the top of the tower, which was over 40-metres high. Refusing to come down, he demanded police bring him a woman he had recently met and was attracted to. Appeals from members of his family to come down failed, the report said.
The stand-off finally ended after police found the woman and brought her to the scene, the report said. Liu agreed to climb down, but accidentally electrocuted himself with a massive electric current.