Outside the Cathedral of Guangzhou Holy Heart Cathedral with a century-old historyCultural relics protection signs, during the "May Day" holiday, reportedly reported to take pictures due to children climbing, and the monument shedd off.
Comprehensive Southern Network, Jinniu.com, and Red Star News reported that the incident occurred at 2:40 pm on Sunday (April 30).Witnesses said that the child climbed to the Cathedral of Guangzhou Holy Heart Cathedral to take pictures. After taking the shooting, he jumped forward from the monument, and the monument fell off and broke.The broken cement block hit the child's mother, and the child's legs also scratched bleeding.
The staff of the Holy Heart Cathedral said that after the incident, the Cultural Bao monument was surrounded by a fence.The staff of the Guangzhou Cultural and Tourism Bureau also said that the cultural security department will send staff to repairs the monument of cultural relics protection, but the specific time has not been determined.
Public information shows that the Guangzhou Holy Heart Cathedral was built in 1863 and was completed in 1888.Chinese officials announced in November 1996 that this church was included in the list of key cultural relics protection units in the country.