Crowd spends over two hours trying to lift obese Chinese man after he fell
Man weighing 220kg fell in street after stay in hospital, newspaper reported
More than 20 people tried and failed for two hours to lift up a man weighing about 220kg who had fallen over in the street in central China, according to a newspaper report.
The man was eventually lifted after a police officer got him to roll onto a stretcher and more than 10 people levered him up, the Chutian Metropolis Daily reported.
The man, aged 27, whose full name was not given, fell in the street on Monday in Wuhan in Hebei province after he was returning home from a visit to hospital, according to the article.
The man has been obese since he was a child, but has become significantly heavier over the past seven years.
He put himself on a diet at the beginning of the Lunar New Year last month, but ended up in hospital with acute gastritis on Sunday.