Video goes viral in China of three foreign vandals spray-painting Beijing and Shanghai subway trains

Chinese transport officials have responded to an online video that went viral this week showing three foreigners vandalising Beijing and Shanghai subway trains and taunting a security guard, mainland media reported.

The two-minute video – believed to have been posted by the three suspects to flaunt their exploits – shows the three young men cutting through station garage fences, spraying carriages with paint and taunting a security guard, the news portal Thepaper.cn reported on Monday.

Inside the Beijing subway, the trio are seen jumping over fences to enter the train garage and then spray-painting graffiti on various train carriages parked inside before taunting a security guard as they leave.

In the Shanghai subway they are shown using pliers to cut through fences to enter the train garage.

Officials at Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport said the video showed incidents that had taken place in 2013.