Authorities have demolished a five-storey home that
stood incongruously in the middle of a new main road and had become
the latest symbol of resistance of chinese
homeowners against officials accused of offering unfair
compensation.
Xiayangzhang village chief Chen Xuecai told The
Associated Press the house was bulldozed Saturday after its owners,
duck farmer Luo Baogen and his wife, agreed to accept compensation
of 260,000 yuan (US$41,000).
There was no immediate confirmation from Luo, whose
cellphone was turned off Saturday.
The couple had been the lone holdouts from a
neighbourhood that was demolished to make way for the main
thoroughfare heading to a newly built railway station on the
outskirts of the city of Wenling in Zhejiang province.
