Woman attacked with hot soup in a hotpot restaurant in China after asking man to stop smoking inside

A woman in China has been assaulted in a hotpot restaurant by a man who threw hot soup at her and her friends after she requested he stop smoking inside.

The woman, surnamed Xiao, uploaded a video on social media platform Weibo showing the incident between her and a man sitting at the table next to her at a hotpot restaurant in the city of Chengdu on Monday evening. The video has been viewed more than 170 million times.