Authorities in China arrested two people they said had inflicted “irreversible” damage to the country’s Great Wall by razing a section in Shanxi province.
Authorities in China arrested two people they said had inflicted “irreversible” damage to the country’s Great Wall by razing a section in central Shanxi province to create a shortcut for construction equipment.The Youyu County Public Security Bureau learned of a gaping hole in the Great Wall on Aug. 24 and dispatched an investigative team to assess the damage, which was inflicted with heavy machinery, according to a report by the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
The police followed tread marks to the location of the apparent excavator in question and arrested two people — a 38-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman working at a nearby construction site. They are suspected of using the excavator to widen an already existing gap in the wall, destroying a strip of the ancient structure to create a shortcut, according to a statement from the Youyu County Public Security Bureau, CCTV reported.The two were summoned for further investigation.
The sections built by the Ming Dynasty, which include the newly damaged section of the 32nd Great Wall, are ambitious feats of construction — “the only work built by human hands on this planet that can be seen from the moon,” according UNESCO. The wall functioned as a barrier against nomadic groups of the vast steppe north of China, historians say.
Some 30 percent of the stone fortifications, which run thousands of miles, is crumbling into ruin, according to
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