CCTV, the state broadcaster reported that two people have been arrested after utilizing an excavator to dig a hole in the Great Wall of China.
Shanxi province’s police followed tracks made by excavator machinery operated to dig a hole for a shortcut through a segment of the wall – remains of the massive structure constructed by China’s emperors to prevent foreign invaders.
State media reported that the suspects confessed under inquiring that they had used machinery to build a shortcut in the wall in a bid to decrease local travel time.
The structure of the Great Wall, which is broken into sections that total period of thousands of kilometers, was first formed in the third century BC and continued for centuries.
The section of the Great Wall impacted, located about a six-hour drive west of central Beijing, dates back to China’s Ming Dynasty of the 14th through 17th centuries.
On Monday, State broadcaster CCTV reported that the suspects had forced “irreversible damage” to the Ming-era wall, which was defined as a “relatively intact” section of considerable analysis value.
Pictures on Chinese state TV showed the aftermath of the scene, where a dusty road had been sliced through a long, lifted section of land that seemed to be the remains of the ancient barrier.
According to CCTV currently, the two suspects have been criminally imprisoned in accordance with the law, and the lawsuit is continuing to be investigated.
