Vietnam Police Brutally Beat School Boy, Providing No First Aid for Victim

Victim Nguyen Duc Phu still weak after two days under medical treatment.

Victim Nguyen Duc Phu still weak after two days under medical treatment.

Police in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh have barbarically beaten a local school boy, providing no the first aid for the victim but leaving him with severe injuries to go home to seek medical emergency, state media has reported.

by Vu Quoc Ngu, November 4, 2015

Police in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh have barbarically beaten a local school boy, providing no the first aid for the victim but leaving him with severe injuries to go home to seek medical emergency, state media has reported.

Nguyen Duc Phu, 16, from Huong Hoa commune, Tuyen Hoa district told reporters of the online newswire VietnamNet that he was attacked by mistake by the communal police on October 31.

At 6.30 PM of the day when he was driving a motorbike to buy a sim card, he was attacked on his face. After falling on the road, he was beaten by other people whom he recognized as local policemen led by Dinh Nam Hai, head of the communal police.

The policemen continued beating him until he shouted that they acted mistakenly. The boy has numerous injuries in his body, head and eyes with blooding on his face.

Two days later, police came to the family to offer apology, saying they beat him by mistake when they were chasing a criminal.

Phu, a tenth-grade student in a local high school, is under medical treatment in Huong Hoa district’s Central Hospital.

Colonel Tran Quang Hieu, head of the district police, said the local police are investigating the case.