By Boluwatife Awoks
A construction worker held his
girlfriend hostage on a Chinese rooftop with a meat cleaver for five hours after her parents reportedly
refused to approve their marriage.
Hundreds
of onlookers and armed police watched as the man stripped to his
underwear and ordered his girlfriend to do the same so she would be
shamed in front of their neighbours.
He
announced he was going to kill her and claimed the 29-year-old
regularly had affairs when he went to work, according to various local
media reports. More pics after the cut...
At one point the man, identified as a 32-year-old named Lin, stripped completely naked. He
held his girlfriend by the throat and waved the meat cleaver in the air
as trained negotiators tried to talk him down from the roof of the
quiet residential block. The man's relatives were brought to the scene on Monday to try and talk him down but had little luck
As police and soldiers surrounded the rooftop, the half-naked kidnapper demanded a getaway car for himself and his girlfriend.
Eventually
police provided one and, still holding his terrified partner, the man
put his jeans back on and climbed down from the roof into a city square.
But as he made his way
towards the car, officers gave chase, managing to pull him away from his
girlfriend and throw him to the ground.
Still topless, he was handcuffed in front of hundreds of stunned onlookers and led away. The
man now faces a lengthy jail term - and according to reports, not even
his own parents had approved the marriage in the first place.
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