Flight stewardess assaulted by drunk military officer

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A Chinese military official has been suspended and placed under investigation over accusations of a drunken assault on a flight attendant, state media said Tuesday.

Fang Daguo was suspended from his job with the armed forces department of the southern city of Guangzhou, the state-run China Daily said, after an air hostess accused him of assaulting her in a dispute over his hand luggage.

The woman, Zhou Yumeng, had posted pictures on her Sina Weibo - a microblogging service similar to Twitter - showing injuries she said Fang inflicted, triggering uproar on China's popular social networking sites.

State-run news agency Xinhua said Fang and his wife "stunk of alcohol" when they boarded the flight from the eastern city of Hefei to Guangzhou, and that Fang grabbed Zhou's arm hard enough to bruise it.

"If it wasn't for us, you wouldn't even have food to eat," Fang's wife told Zhou, according to Xinhua.

Officials in Guangzhou's Yuexiu district, where Fang is employed, said last week an internal investigation had found him innocent, but changed tack after Xinhua disputed their account.