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Hundreds of people rioted in southwest China after security forces reportedly beat a disabled street vendor to death, government authorities and state media said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The crowd gathered in Guizhou province’s Anshun city yesterday afternoon after the hawker died<\/strong>, the local government said, in an incident that bore a close similarity with riots last month in China’s southern industrial heartland.<\/p>\n

A police spokesman said the one-legged man had argued with the “chengguan”, <\/strong>the official Xinhua news agency said Wednesday, referring to a municipal security force charged with regulating street hawking and similar activities.<\/p>\n

Comments posted by netizens said the “chengguan” — two men and one woman — beat the disabled vendor to death.<\/strong> The Xinhua report said an investigation was under way to find out how he died.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong-based Cable TV broadcast images of the unrest, showing overturned cars, people throwing stones at shield-wielding police, and injured, bleeding protesters.<\/p>\n

It said police used water cannons to disperse the crowd, and that shooting sounds were heard, believed to be the firing of tear gas.<\/p>\n

The “chengguan” are widely disliked in China, where they have a reputation for using brute force against civilians — in particular illegal street vendors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rumors that “chengguan” had beaten a street hawker to death and manhandled his pregnant wife in the southern province of Guangdong sparked violent rioting last month.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Television images at the time showed hundreds of police officers and armoured vehicles deployed on the streets, with people hurling bricks at local officials, vandalising ATMs and police posts.<\/p>\n

These incidents are the latest in a recent bout of unrest in China sparked by perceived social injustices.<\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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