‘Bad to the bone’: millions in China shocked by girl, 7, who throws boy into well, mimicking TV drama plot — victim rescued minutes later
- A girl in China threw a little boy into a well and blamed it on a television show, police say
- The story has become an online sensation in China, with more than 100 million reads on Weibo and 10 million views on Douyin
A seven-year-old girl in southwestern China has shocked internet users by throwing a four-year-old boy into a well, saying she was mimicking what she saw on a TV drama.
The boy was rescued after 10 minutes by villagers who heard his cries for help from the almost five-metre-deep well, which was filled with two metres of water, said police in Songming county in Yunnan province, the Beijing News reported.
Surveillance camera records showed the girl and the boy were playing around two wells in their village on March 8, when the girl suddenly lifted the boy up and dropped him into one of the wells.
Seeing the boy grab the well’s edge with his hands, the girl then forced his hands off it, letting the boy fall down into the well. The girl then walked around the well for a moment before leaving the scene.
Minutes later, the boy’s grandmother came to look for him and found the boy in the well after hearing his voice.