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Comment (BEIJING (AFP) - - The police chief whose inquiry into the alleged rape and murder of a schoolgirl triggered riots in southwestern China is facing the sack for sparking the unrest, state media reported early Friday.
A protest involving 30,000 people saw government buildings and cars torched last weekend after police reported that 17-year-old Li Shufen had drowned in Weng'an county.
The demonstrators alleged that the probe into the teenager's death had been covered up because the son of a local official was involved in raping the girl, an allegation later dismissed by police in Guizhou province.
However the official Xinhua news agency said a meeting on Wednesday had recommended that police chief Shen Guirong and a local political official named Luo Laiping should be dismissed for "severe malfeasance."
"Leaders of the county's CPC (Communist Party of China) committee and government had an undeniable responsibility for Saturday's violent protest ignited by a contro...
