Female Vendor Stabs Patrol Officer In The Throat For 'Disrupting' Her Business.

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Female Vendor Stabs Patrol Officer In The Throat For 'Disrupting' Her Business.

A minor street incident quickly escalated in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing this week when a street vendor stabbed a local enforcement officer in the neck with a fruit skewer.

The 45-year-old female vendor was selling sugar-coated haws on a stick, a beloved snack in China, on Sanxia Square in downtown Chongqing, where vendors are not permitted.
When the patrolling inspector tried to escort her off the square, she stabbed him in the throat with one of her fruit skewers.

Several people were waiting to buy the fruity snack when the vendor was told to close up shop, and she apparently complained to the officer that she could have sold several skewers if he hadn’t turned up, the square’s management said.

The chengguan officer, who was seen staggering and being helped by colleagues after the attack, was hospitalized with serious damage to his thyroid.

His condition was not critical however, the Beijing Youth Daily said. The street vendor has meanwhile been detained and an investigation was underway, the newspaper added.

Pictures of the injured officer were posted online and have been shared extensively on Chinese social media, causing an outcry.

It has also thrust into the limelight once again the deep seated antagonism between local enforcement agents and vendors, which regularly makes headlines across the country.