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Shocking moment machine gun cops herd terrified families to quarantine camp in disturbing vision of ‘Covid zero’ China
HAUNTING footage has emerged of Chinese cops using machine guns to herd passengers and forbid them from leaving an airport in Yunnan Province as part of the country's brutal zero Covid policy.
The dystopian scenes emerged on Tuesday after passengers at the the Xishuangbanna airport uploaded the terrifying videos on Twitter, after the Prefecture went into complete lockdown amid China's extreme Zero Covid policy.
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Local authorities in southwest China’s Yunnan province shut down the area after Covid cases climbed to the highest in two weeks following a week-long holiday.
Footage shows the faceless, rifle-wielding guards confront passengers getting frustrated with long queues to exit the airport.
A Twitter user who posted the footage online wrote: "Millions of Chinese people are living under martial law now! Every few hundred meters and each intersection, there is a guard carrying a rifle to enforce lockdown."
In one of the videos, a fearful traveller can be heard screaming: "Are you gonna kill us all?"
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Other footage, which was allegedly shot later that day, shows masked police office guarding the airport exit doors, pushing and shoving passengers who attempted to leave the premises.
According to one of the witnesses, police beat them, while others said families were being herded to "centralised quarantine" in quarantine camps.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, China has applied draconian Covid restrictions on its population.
Health officials are quick to impose strict lockdowns on entire cities as soon as Covid cases are reported.
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In July, panic spread across Wuhan after a million people were thrusted back into the world’s strictest lockdown after a handful of Covid cases were recorded.
At the time, the nation's leaders said they were upholding their zero tolerance policy toward the virus over four asymptomatic cases.
Nationwide, there were 909 reported infections on Tuesday, following the National Day holiday.
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In a briefing on Saturday, a party chief, Sun Shaocheng, insisted the authorities would stamp out transmissions by "killing chickens using a knife for killing cows" - the use of excessive efforts to achieve a small task.
It is believed tougher curbs on freedom may be deployed across the country in the run up to the Party Congress planned on October 16 - one of the most significant events in the Chinese political calendar.
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