Thousands of people have reportedly taken to the streets in Sichuan Luzhou, China, in protest against an alleged killing by traffic police, late on Wednesday night.
According to reports on China's micro-blogging site, Weibo, the disturbance started at the HongXing village farmer’s market. A truck allegedly caused some serious traffic jam at the market, 3 traffic police came and seemingly started a quarrel with the truck driver. Somehow the quarrel escalated and the driver was said to be beaten to death by the three traffic police.
Lyn Gould, above, with her husband Alan, has dedicated her life to helping orphans in China.
Here she explains, in her own words, why she has chosen to take such a difficult path in life...
People ask me how I can work with dying children in China - they say they couldn’t do it because they would just cry all the time. Do they think I don’t care? Do they think I am not affected by what I see every day? But I can’t not do it.
Everything in China is about money - there is no free health service. Even if a child needs surgery to help them to live, if the family can...
