Officials eye training to handle mass incidents

After two clashes broke out in Guangdong province this week, local officials are being encouraged to undergo special training to better prepare them to deal with mass incidents.

On Monday, more than 300 migrant workers from Chongqing attended a meeting of the Longshan village committee in Shaxi township of Zhongshan in search of answers after a 15-year-old boy from Chongqing had been tied up and injured by local villagers at about 10:30 pm the same day.

According to reports, the boy had been in a fight earlier in the day with a local resident, a 13-year-old student.