Sep 5 – According to state media, authorities in China’s Shanxi province have detained two persons for allegedly breaking a part of the Great Wall with an excavator.
According to CCTV, the authorities in Youyu county got notification on August 24 that a crack in the wall had been constructed in Yangqianhe township.
According to CNN, authorities discovered that a 38-year-old male and a 55-year-old woman used an excavator to breach the wall in order to establish a shortcut to pass through, causing “irreversible” damage to the integrity and safety of that piece of the wall.
According to police, the investigation is still ongoing.
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The 32nd Great Wall section is one of the few remaining full walls and guard towers from the Ming period (1368-1644) and is designated as a provincial cultural relic monument.
In 1987, the Great Wall of China was designated a Unesco World Heritage Site.
