Chinese township riots over teacher’s death

CROWDS angered by alleged police mishandling of a school teacher’s death have reportedly attacked government offices in a southern Chinese city, sparking arrests and beatings by riot troops.

Students and local residents of Rui’an’s Tangxia township claimed police falsified a report and colluded with the husband of high school English teacher Dai Haijing, 30, to have her death classified as a suicide, according to Hong Kong newspapers Ta Kung Pao and The South China Morning Post.

The demonstrators also staged a protest at the husband’s factory.