Chinese schoolboy dies after being beaten up by classmates over a ‘trivial thing’
- Five pupils at middle school in Gansu detained as 14-year-old suffers fatal brain injuries after being attacked in alley during lunch break
Five school pupils from northwestern China have been detained after a 14-year-old classmate was beaten up so badly that he died.
The pupil from Weihe Junior Middle School in Longxi county, Gansu province, died in hospital hours after he was attacked by classmates in an alley outside the school on Tuesday last week, local police said on Tuesday.
The assault was sparked by a “trivial thing”, the police said in a statement issued on the social media platform WeChat, without giving further details.
The victim, surnamed Zhang, did not dare tell teachers about the beating and he was only sent to hospital two hours later after a teacher noticed something was wrong, Red Star News reported.
The police said Zhang was attacked during the school’s lunch break and Zhang’s mother told Red Star News that she was notified by the school around an hour later.
“When we arrived at the school, he was vomiting and lost consciousness,” she said.