Chinese boy suffocated at ‘rebellious children’ boot camp
Student, 13, died at military-style training school after he was restrained by two members of staff who have been detained by police, newspaper reports
Two members of staff at a military-style training school treating “rebellious children” in eastern China have been detained after a teenage boy suffocated to death, according to a newspaper report.
The staff were detained by police on Tuesday after the 13-year-old boy died during a row at the Shandong Yabo Education Training School in Jinan, Shandong province, the Beijing Youth Daily reported.
The members of staff, whose full names were not given, were “subduing” the boy after an argument broke out on Monday about the “management of students”, police were quoted as saying.
The local authorities had already ordered the school to suspend its operation before the incident as they found it was involved in illegal internet addiction treatment, police said.
No details were given of how the child died, but a former student at the school told the Beijing Youth Daily it was common for teaching staff to beat students and cover their mouths with wet towels to suffocate them.
Calls made to the school by the South China Morning Post on Friday were unanswered.