A 27-year-old man died last week after he spent more than 15 hours continuously surfing the Internet in a cafe in Guangzhou's Yuexiu District, Guangdong Province.

Chen became faint and fell to the ground at about 5 am. He was sent to a local hospital where he died.

Doctors said Chen died from a heart attack. An employee from the Internet cafe said Chen had been in the 100-square-metre cafe for between 15 and 16 hours, and had eaten his lunch at the cafe the previous day.