A two-year-old girl who was thrown to the ground by a man during a row over a parking space in Beijing has died, state media say.
A witness told the Beijing Times that the man, identified only by his surname Han, wanted to park by a bus stop in Beijing.
But the toddler's mother, who was on foot, would not move out of his way as she was tending to her daughter at the time.
Han got out of his car and allegedly hit the woman before taking the girl out of her pram, holding her up and throwing her "forcefully" to the ground, said the witness, a street-stall owner named Zhou.
"The baby made no noises after being dropped, not even a cry of pain," the newspaper quoted Zhou as saying.
Another man came out of the car and also beat the mother before the pair drove away, it added.
Police reportedly found Han, who was released from prison this year after serving a sentence for theft, in a hot spring bathhouse and detained him.
"Han was put in criminal detention on suspicion of intentional homicide on Thursday afternoon," state news agency Xinhua said, citing the Beijing Security Bureau.
Han could face the death penalty if he is convicted of murder.
The incident sparked outrage on Chinese social media as Weibo users vilified the attackers and expressed grief over the toddler's fate.
- Yahoo
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