Thousands riot in China after vendor killed by government officials
Thousands of people in east China's Shandong province rioted last week, storming a government building and smashing equipment after an official vehicle ran over and killed a vendor, a human rights group and residents said.
The riot -- one of the largest in recent years -- occurred a day after a confrontation between officials and a man selling fresh pancakes from a roving stove-wagon in Zhoucheng city.
The previous day, the vendor was selling the popular egg and onion pancakes when some employees from the "city management" department confiscated his wagon and loaded it onto their vehicle, sources said. Shao -- seeing his source of livelihood being carted away -- blocked the vehicle's path. He was run over as a crowd watched, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said.
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