Young man steals car, beats police to escape quarantine
While waiting for authorities to take him to a centralized quarantine area, Chu Van Tung, 20 years old, stole a car and beat a traffic police officer to escape.
At around 10am on April 1, Chu Van Tung was riding a motorbike with a Gia Lai license plate on National Highway 14, heading from Gia Lai to Kon Tum. When he reached Sao Mai Pass (Hoa Binh Commune, Kon Tum City), he was asked by authorities to stop, guided to complete medical declaration procedures, have his temperature checked and will be quarantined.
While the police were working, this young man secretly took his motorbike out but was discovered and his motorbike keys were confiscated.
At 2:00 p.m., Tung suddenly jumped into a pickup truck with the engine running (the owner was making a medical declaration), then drove away.
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When stopped by the police, the young man abandoned the pickup truck (circled in red) he had just stolen and ran into the forest on foot. Photo:Ngoc Oanh. |
Four traffic police officers used specialized vehicles to chase him for about 300 meters, then overtook him and blocked his way, but he hit him straight on. When the car stopped, he used an iron bar to attack him, causing Lieutenant Nguyen Nhat Khanh (Kon Tum City Traffic Police) to need five stitches in his face.
On the way to escape on foot towards the mountains, he beat a local and stole his phone. At 8pm, Tung was surrounded and arrested by the police.
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Kon Tum traffic police set up a checkpoint at Sao Mai Pass - bordering Gia Lai province, on the morning of April 1. Photo:Ngoc Oanh. |
Previously, on the evening of March 31, the People's Committee of Kon Tum province issued a telegram "all people coming to/returning to Kon Tum province after 0:00 on April 1 must make mandatory health declarations, verify whether they are citizens of the province or citizens from outside the province, the purpose of coming to the province, make a list, and put them in centralized quarantine...".
