BEIJING (AFP) - A British man has been detained for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman on the side of a road in Beijing, police said on Thursday, as a purported video of the incident went viral on the web.
The video, which showed a foreign man standing next to a visibly distressed Chinese woman lying on a roadside flowerbed with her pants down, drew more than 4.5 million views.
'A drunk man sexually assaulted a woman in a public place on the evening of May 8, and when passers-by realised, they stopped him and called the police,' said a message posted on the Beijing public security bureau's official microblog page.
It added that the man, who has been detained, is British and is in China on a tourist visa. It also linked the incident to the video circulating online.
The video - which has gone viral - also shows male passers-by beating and kicking the alleged attacker, who is left lying on the road when police show up.
Mr John Gallagher, spokesman for the British embassy in Beijing, told AFP the embassy had not yet received any official notifications about the incident from the Chinese police.
The video purportedly showing the assault was uploaded to video-sharing website Youku.com, but it is unclear who filmed the incident.
China is generally considered a safe country for women given that sexual assaults and cases of violence are still relatively rare.
Source: ST Online
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