Woman assaulted on bus for talking too loudly on phone

Security footage from the suburban bus in Xian showed the woman fighting fiercely with the man and another woman. Photo: Handout.

BEIJING: A woman riding a bus in the central Chinese city of Xian was punched and had her hair pulled out by a male passenger and another woman for talking too loudly on her mobile phone, a local radio station reported.

The 55-year-old victim, surnamed Yang, told Shaanxi Radio she taking answering a call when the man sitting behind her suddenly punched the back of her neck.