At around 11:30am yesterday morning, a the roof of a furniture and building supplies market near Beijing's Joy City shopping mall caved in, killing two workers. According to the Chaoyang District government, the building's roof was undergoing renovation when 200 square meters of its eastern wing collapsed, burying the two men.
When a journalist turned up at the scene of the incident to conduct interviews, he was was photographed (from a distance) being picked up by half a dozen guards and hauled away from the area.
"So they want to bury the truth, too?" one netizen's comment read. After the July 2011 highspeed train collission that killed 40 in Zhejiang Province, authorities famously buried the wreckage in a mud ditch beside the tracks in what many saw as a deliberate attempt to obfuscate evidence of officials' mismanagement and cut corners.
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