China Scene: South

Patient's visitors beat nurse into coma

A nurse was attacked and left in a coma by several people in a hospital in Qingyuan, Guangdong province.

The nurse, Luo Aiqing, was treating wounds on a male patient's leg when one of his companions put his hands on her waist and shoulders. She protested and berated the man, but the group then attacked her, beating her unconscious and injuring her kidneys.