BEIJING: A Chinese lawmaker is being sought by authorities after trying to dig out a five-storey basement in his Beijing courtyard home, only for a giant sinkhole to swallow four of his neighbours’ houses, reports said.
An editorial in the state-run China Daily newspaper blasted Li Baojun for having displayed a “deep disregard for the law”.
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