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Woman Beaten To Death By Employees At A Wal-Mart Store In China
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by Yuliya Talmazan | September 8, 2009 at 02:34 pm
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Five employees of Wal-Mart in the Chinese province of Jiangxi are implicated in the death of a woman identified as Yu Xiaochun who was allegedly shoplifting. The woman did not die right away, but was admitted to hospital with injuries, of which she passed away three days after the attack on September 2. The bizarre confrontation did not even take place inside a Wal-Mart store. The Wal-Mart employees have intercepted the woman on the street not far away from one of the Wal-Mart stores, and demanded to see her receipt. When the woman failed to produce one, the employees started beating her.
Two employees have been already arrested in connection with the incident. There are speculations that four of the employees were men, one - female; all of them were in their twenties. The interesting development is that allegedly none of the employees was wearing Wal-Mart uniform.
According to police, the victim, a 37-year-old female named Yu Xiaochun, was said to have stolen something from a Walmart supermarket in Jingdezhen city at 7:40 p.m. on Aug. 30. A worker, surnamed Yu, asked four others to intercept her.
A spokeswoman for Wal-Mart in China, Vivi Mou, said in an e-mailed statement to The Associated Press that "an incident occurred" between two security associates and a female visitor on Aug. 30, but the cause of death is still being investigated.
The victim was 37 years old and had a young son.
No formal apology has been issued by Wal-Mart China yet.
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at 14:47 on September 8th, 2009
I bet shoplifting will not be a problem at that Wal Mart anymore.
at 15:37 on September 8th, 2009
This is terrible
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Easterntime (not verified)at 19:45 on September 8th, 2009
it turned out that the dead woman had her receipt and in fact she just refused to show it to those five strangers surrounding her...
at 20:48 on September 8th, 2009
Really terrible! There should be a legal action for this not to happen again. Defense Secretary Robert Gates pled with the Associated Press not to release the photos, which they decided to release anyway. Not all newspapers carried it, which Gates applauded, but lambasted those who decided to run photos of the dying Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard – maybe they should have gotten a loan until payday instead of traumatizing an already bereaved family if they needed money.