Couple’s house torn down after three-year standoff

CHINESE authorities have torn down a couple’s house after a three-year standoff that captivated the nation, a witness and state media said yesterday.

Couple’s house torn down after three-year standoff

Wu Ping and Yang Wu have been fighting off bulldozers in downtown Chongqing since 2004, when they were one of 280 households asked to make way for a redevelopment project in the booming southwestern city of nearly 28 million.

Their two-story brick building was clawed into dust by an earth mover as a few dozen reporters and people looked on late Monday night, according to one witness, Zhou Shuguang.

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