A Chinese safety official with a penchant for luxury watches has been sacked for "inappropriate 'smiling face' behaviour" after he was pictured grinning at a fatal accident, authorities said Friday. Widespread outrage was triggered last month by images of Yang Dacai, head of the Shaanxi provincial work safety administration, smiling broadly at the scene of a collision between a bus and a methanol tanker that killed 36 people.
Mr Yang is the latest government official brought down by a scandal going viral online, as authorities seek to contain popular anger at perceived expensive tastes and corruption among public servants. Courtesy of ABC News, The China Daily and AFP.
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