Man with four children ‘forced to have vasectomy’

The invoice for the operation carried out at a family planning clinic. Photo: Ifeng.com.

BEIJING: A health authority in southwest China is investigating claims that a man was forced to have a vasectomy when he was visiting his home town during the Lunar New Year holiday, a newspaper reported.

The man, who had three children from his first marriage and another from his second, was taken away by about a dozen people in charge of family planning when he was visiting friends in Zhenxiong county in Yunnan province on February 8, the Beijing Youth Daily said.