BEIJING, July 5, 2015 (AFP) - Police in Beijing have detained a man for allegedly spreading a rumour online that a person jumped to their death in the city’s financial district due to China’s precarious stock markets, police said Sunday, underscoring growing jitters amid a three-week long sell-off.
The 29-year-old man detained was identified by the surname Tian, and is a manager at a technology and science company in Beijing, police said in a post on their official microblog.
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