China Scene: South

Nut-gathering senior citizen faints and falls

A 79-year-old woman surnamed Wang was hospitalized on Tuesday after falling out of an areca tree while gathering nuts.

The incident took place at about noon in the city's Wucun village, Longquan township, in Haikou, capital of Hainan province. Wang had been gathering areca nuts for about an hour when she had a dizzy spell and fell from the 8-m-tall tree.