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The Chinese playground spat that got out of hand when adults started to join the fight

Brawl between adults in which grown man can be seen throwing children’s toys out of the playpen is captured on film

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Footage of the confrontation at a children’s playground in a shopping centre circulated online. Photo: Handout
Alice Yanin Shanghai

A group of adults were filmed brawling in a playground in southern China after their children argued over toys.

Video clips of the adults fighting at a shopping centre in Shenzhen on Saturday started circulating online, attracting a string of lurid rumours, news portal People.com.cn reported.

In the footage, a number of men can be seen throwing punches and kicks, and grappling with each other.

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At one point, one of the participants starts throwing toys from the playground around.

A man was left sprawled on the ground at the end of the incident – when staff at the shopping centre intervened to stop the fight.

The Shenzhen police department issued a statement the next day to deny claims circulating on social media that one participant had been seriously injured and left in a vegetative state.

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