China Scene: Central

Man left hanging after apartment block lockout

A 52-year-old man was left swinging from a rope when he tried to climb into his sixth-floor apartment through a window after locking himself out in Luoyang, Henan province, on Monday.

After Guo was accidentally locked outside of his apartment in a housing estate in the city's Wenxing road about 8:30 am, he tied himself to a rope and climbed down from the roof to enter his apartment through the window.