China: Parents strip teacher naked in public for assaulting female student

Beijing: A school teacher was publicly stripped naked and thrashed by angry parents in China accusing him of sexually assaulting their teenage daughter.

A video footage of the incident has surfaced online in which a man can be seen naked as he is being thrashed by the parents of a female student.

The incident took place at Weixian Number 1 Middle School in Wei County of China's Hebei province.

The video was shot by an unidentified onlooker and uploaded on social media. Some of the internet users, who claimed to be former students of the teacher, said that he had sexually assaulted a female student.

The video footage shows a naked man sitting on the floor with his hands tied at the back. The man can be seen swaying forward and backwards as onlookers continue to film the act.

Police officials have confirmed the incident and said that they were investigation the matter.