Sleep-deprived Chinese worker lashes out at snoring roommate in cleaver attack

A man in eastern China is facing up to a decade in jail for a cleaver attack on a snoring colleague and roommate.

The victim sustained multiple severe wounds to his head and torso during the attack in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, and the assailant was charged with intentional assault, People’s Daily reported on Friday.

The two men were both loud snorers and had been assigned to the same company dormitory room after their nocturnal noises disrupted the sleep of other roommates, the report said.

But the tension between them soon mounted as their snoring affected each other.

After failing to doze off one night, one of the men grabbed a cleaver from the dorm cafeteria and started attacking the sleeping roommate.