BEIJING (AFP) — An angry crowd in southwest China beat a suicidal man who threatened to jump off a ledge with his two-year-old daughter, state media reported.
More than 100 people attacked the man, 34-year-old Hu Binjun, after he had dangled his daughter from an eighth-floor window in the city of Chengdu, in Sichuan province, according to the China Daily.
"He deserved the beating because he was so inhumane to his own child," said a woman at the scene, according to the report.
The incident happened on Tuesday morning following a fight between Hu and his wife over his alleged drug use, the English-language newspaper said.
When firefighters got close to the window, Hu went inside his flat but left the child upside down on a ledge outside the window, where she was rescued by a fireman.
The beating occurred after police took him outside, the report said, without saying how badly he was injured.
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