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Chinese boy runs away after family row, learns of dad’s fatal car crash 2 days later

Urgent search discovers boy, 12, wandering the street, unaware that his single-parent father had been killed

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A boy in China who ran away after a row with his single-parent father only found out that his dad had been killed in a traffic accident when the police found him wandering the streets. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock
Fran Luin Beijing

People on social media have been left heartbroken over a 12-year-old boy who ran away from home to escape his father’s discipline, and only heard about the latter’s sudden death when he was found by the police.

The boy, surnamed Wang, from eastern China’s Jiangxi province, ran away from home on May 20 after his father scolded and beat him for playing with his phone too much.

Two days later, his father, a delivery driver, was hit by a car while on the job.

According to a witness, Wang senior was riding his electric bike when it collided with a car and he was dragged under its wheels.

The runaway boy, above, was found after police and volunteers organised an urgent search mission. Photo: QQ.com
The runaway boy, above, was found after police and volunteers organised an urgent search mission. Photo: QQ.com

The witness said she heard the driver confess to not seeing Wang senior who was seriously injured and rushed to hospital.

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