Epigraph: And there is life for you in the law of retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may enjoy security. (Al Quran 2:184)
Source: BBC
A court in China has sentenced a man to death for killing a two-year-old girl in Beijing over a parking space row, state media report.
Han Lei, 39, pulled the toddler out of her pram and threw her to the ground after her mother refused to make way for his car in July.
He fled the scene but was captured. The girl later died from her injuries.
He said the killing was unintentional, as he was drunk and had thought the pram was a shopping trolley.
“I did not know there was an infant inside,” he previously said.
The case has provoked an outcry in China, with many people expressing their anger online, state media reported.
Many in China were shocked that an argument over a parking space could come to such a violent end, says the BBC’s Martin Patience in Beijing.
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comment
The sentence highlights that every human life is sacred and cannot and should not be trifled with.
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