Boy runs away from homework

A 10-year-old boy stowed away on a train and ran away from home in China - because he had too much homework.

Xu Zhiqiang, 10, from Cili town, Hunan province, ended up thousands of miles away from home.

He said he could not cope with the amount of homework he was expected to complete during the one month winter holiday.



To make matters worse, Xu's mum found a mistake on one question and punished him by getting him to correct the mistake and copy the right answer 100 times.

After copying it 50 times, an exhhausted Xu ran out of his home and hopped onto a train.

Xu had reached Guangzhou station, thousands of miles from home, where a station policeman found him the next day.

He could not remember his telephone number - or even his full address - but eventually the policeman managed to contact his worried parents.