A man has been arrested for attempted murder after his elderly paralysed mother was found buried alive. Wang Mou, 79, was pulled out of an abandoned pit in China's Shaanxi province by police.
Video of the dramatic rescue operation reportedly showed officers pulling her out feet first. Local media reports she had spent three days trapped in the pit before being discovered.
She was rushed to hospital where she remains in a stable condition. Her son, 58-year-old Ma Mou, has since been arrested and remains in custody on an attempted murder charge.
His wife, Zhang Mou, reportedly alerted police to her mother-in-law's disappearance on Tuesday morning. She said she saw her husband put Wang on a pushcart and wheel her out of the family home in the
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