Key facts
- A man has been arrested in Chengdu, China, for fabricating a rooftop grave hoax.
- The hoax involved telling a neighbor that bones found on her rooftop belonged to a buried young boy.
- The homeowner had purchased the flat in 2017 and had been renting it out.
- Police debunked the rumor.
Police in Chengdu, Sichuan province, have arrested a man for fabricating a hoax about a child's grave on a residential rooftop. The homeowner, identified by her surname Li, discovered what appeared to be a grave on the rooftop above her seventh-floor apartment. She had purchased the second-hand flat in 2017 and had been renting it out.
A neighbor recently told Li that the bones found on the rooftop belonged to a buried young boy. Police have since debunked the rumor.
