Crowd Riots After Taxi Driver Is Detained
Thousands of people went on a rampage in the central Chinese city of Xian, accusing police of favoring tourists after a taxi driver was detained in a fight with the driver of a bus carrying students visiting from Hong Kong.
About 800 police were sent to restore order in Wednesday’s incident.
After traffic police detained the taxi driver but let the bus driver go, a crowd that had gathered to watch the drivers scuffle went wild, setting trash cans on fire and tearing out street dividers, according to local residents and the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy.
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