Removal of stairway attempt at enforced demolition.
Given the usual approach of the Chinese over enforced demolition and the removal of residents apparently by any means necessary, this story perhaps marks a softer stance by Chinese officials. But, for the residents involved, it is no less harrowing.
A furious family is suing property developers after they demolished every staircase in a seven-storey apartment block to make them quit their top floor flat.
Mum Zhao Yanhong, 42, claims developers – who want to demolish the flats in Mianyang, south west China, to build a factory – hired thugs to force out other residents but she refused to budge.
‘Then one day they turned up with machines and men and knocked out all the stairs to strand us here. They are just trying to bully us out of our home,’ said Yanhong.
The only way we can get out now is through ladders and climbing but it is very dangerous,’ she added.
Developers from Mianyang Yachuan Property Company claim they own the property and have permission to demolish it but deny any wrong doing.
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