China: schoolboy gets 52 stitches after teacher attack...

A primary-school student in central China had to have 52 stitches in his face after he was beaten by his teacher for not doing his homework.

Zheng Chaoqun, 10, is still being treated at a hospital in Henan province after his teacher tore away a strip of flesh. Zheng told a local newspaper, the Dayang News, that his assailant, 37-year-old Guo Yabin, had picked him up by his cheeks after he failed to hand in his work. More...

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