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Man given 15 days’ detention for slapping stewardess on Chinese train

Passenger launches vicious assault on young woman after being told there is no room in the dining carriage

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The waitress holds a hand to her face after being slapped by the angry passenger. Photo: Handout
Viola Zhou

A Chinese man has been given 15 days in detention for slapping a railway stewardess five times in the face after she told him he couldn’t sit in the train’s dining car, mainland media reported.

The incident happened on Friday morning as the man, surnamed Wang, was travelling through the northern province of Gansu, news portal Thepaper.cn reported on Saturday.

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The man lands a blow on the terrified waitress. Photo: Handout
The man lands a blow on the terrified waitress. Photo: Handout
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Wang, who works for the local railway bureau, asked the unnamed waitress to find him a seat in the dining carriage although he said he didn’t wish to eat. When she told him there was no room, he lost his temper, the report said.

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