Chinese men set field ablaze for fun ... then pose for photos

Two Chinese men who posed for pictures after deliberately setting a field ablaze have been criticised by the police and fire services.

One of the men posted the pictures on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, on Saturday, the news website Guancha.cn reported.

The man, who did not give his real name but said he was from Suzhou in Anhui province, wrote: “Went up the mountain to start a fire. We are two 30-year-old men.”

The pair took pictures of each other jumping in the air as undergrowth in the field smoked and burned.

Some of the shots also showed the men burning straw and stoking the fire using dried branches. 

Hours after the photographs were posted, China’s fire service shared the post on its Weibo account, saying: “[You’re] already 30 years old. Don’t you know starting fires is illegal?”