Chinese township 'riots over teacher's death'

Crowds angered by alleged police mishandling of a teacher’s death attacked government offices in a southern Chinese city, leading to beatings and arrests, newspapers and a local hospital said.

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

An administrator answering phones at Rui’an City People’s Hospital said more than a dozen people had been admitted for treatment following Friday’s violence.

The woman refused to give her name or other details about the incident.