A construction worker held his girlfriend hostage on a Chinese rooftop
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.
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.
