Two people held after smashing hole in Great Wall of China to build shortcut

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Two people held after smashing hole in Great Wall of China to build shortcut
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BEIJING: Two people have been detained after using an excavator to dig a hole in the Great Wall of China, state broadcaster CCTV said. Police in Shanxi province followed tracks made by machinery used to dig a shortcut through a segment of the wall - remains of the immense structure built by Ch

BEIJING: Two people have been detained after using an excavator to dig a hole in the Great Wall of China, state broadcaster CCTV said.

The suspects admitted under questioning that they had used a digger to create a shortcut in the wall in a bid to reduce local travel time, state media reported. The section of the Great Wall affected, situated about a six-hour drive west of central Beijing, dates back to China's Ming Dynasty of the 14th through 17th centuries.

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