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.
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