Police in China accused of abandoning injured girl

Three police officers and a town official are being held in custody after allegations they abandoned a badly injured teenager in a ditch because they thought she was a mentally ill vagrant.

The girl surnamed Wu, 18, a senior at No 4 Guoyang County Middle School in Anhui province, was spotted lying half-naked and semi-conscious in an alleyway by a passer-by.

The police officers in Gaogong town, Guoyang, who responded to the emergency 110 call, believed Ms Wu was 'homeless and in a confused state of mind', and decided to refer the matter to Mr Zhou Yuzhu at the Gaogong civil affairs bureau, authorities said.

Instead of transferring Ms Wu to hospital, however, Mr Zhou put her in a car of the civil affairs bureau and told the driver to dump her in the neighbouring county, Taihe.

Local media reported that she was later discovered in a ditch by passers-by and rushed to Taihe People's Hospital, where doctors discovered she had a fractured skull.

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