Crazed man tries to burn down hospital after mum dies

Family members visiting a hospital have stopped a crazed man from burning the building down with a bottle of petrol.

The suspect, identified only by his surname, Da, had planned to take revenge on the hospital for failing to cure his mother.

Reports say that Da planned his attack after his mother, surnamed Huang, was admitted to the city's Central Hospital with a cerebral infarction on Valentine's Day this year.

Huang's condition did not improve and the woman ran away from the hospital two days later, only to be found in the beginning of March drowned in a local river, her wrists slit in an apparent suicide.

Da blamed the hospital for his mother's death and demanded financial compensation, but the hospital refused and asked the bereaved son to take the matter to court.

Stills of surveillance footage released by local police show the moment Da goes back to the Baoji Central Hospital in north-west China said at 8pm one day in order to carry out the attack.

He was riding the hospital lift when a nurse, Li Ming, entered and fell victim to his attack.
Li Ming recalled: "I was taking the lift to the third floor and I asked the man which floor he was going to. He told me he was going to the ninth.

"But then he suddenly grabbed my hair, pushed me to the ground, and starting pouring petrol all over me."
Da had planned to set her and the hospital on fire to take his revenge. When the lift doors opened on the third floor, however, Li Ming screamed for help. She was heard by a man, Li Yuan, who was at the hospital taking care of a sick family member.

BRAVE: Nurse Wang Fang snatched the bottle of petrol from Da

 Yi Yuan rushed to the nurse's aid, pulling her out of the lift and into the corridor.

The victim's colleague, a nurse named Wang Fang, then snatched the bottle of petrol from Da, while three other men, who were also visiting relatives, helped subdue the attacker.

Reports said the men - Lv Pengfei, Feng Limin, and Lv Cheng - pushed Da to the ground before he could set the petrol alight..

Da was eventually arrested by police. After the incident, Baoji Central Hospital released a statement through local media thanking the heroes for preventing any harm from coming to the 1,053 patients and family members who were in the building at the time.

Source: Daily Star