I thought it is only in Islam,they bury woman alive while stoning to death...
Chinese couple arrested for burying a woman alive
Pair had been at an all-night
karaoke session when they hit 68-year-old while driving in the early hours of
the morning
Chinese police have arrested a young
couple who are accused of burying a 68-year-old woman alive believing she was
dead after running over her, newspapers said on Thursday, in a case that has
sparked outrage over declining public morality.
The couple had been at an all-night
karaoke session when they hit the woman while driving in the early hours of the
morning in the wealthy eastern province of Zhejiang in April, the official China
Daily said.
"A witness said he heard
someone crying and saw an elderly woman lying on the ground near (the
car)," it cited a policeman as saying.
"A man and a woman got out and
put the elderly woman in the car, saying they would send her to hospital."
But, worried about being arrested
for drink-driving and causing the accident and believing she was not dead, they
are believed to have buried her near the side of the road, the report added.
When police later found the woman's
body they discovered she had been alive when buried but then suffocated, the paper
said.
The story has been widely discussed
on China's popular Twitter-like service Weibo, where it has ignited uproar for
what some called the immorality of modern Chinese society.
"Such things show that our
society really has huge problems it is not facing," wrote one user.
"People of China, how have you
come to this?" wrote another.
China's economic boom and the
growing disparity between the rich and poor have made changing social values a
contentious topic, with some lamenting what they see as materialism and a
get-rich-quick attitude replacing public morals.
Last year graphic video footage of a
two-year-old child run over by a van and ignored by passersby in southern China
sparked similar anger.
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