Girl, 7, in coma after trying to help mum under attack

The New Paper Wednesday, Jun 27, 2012

The plucky seven-year-old girl tried to shield her mother from being attacked by a mentally-ill man wielding a steel shovel.

But little Wang Yan, from a village in Anhui province, China, was hit and is now being treated in hospital for a serious brain injury.

The girl suffered a broken skull and injury to her brain stem.

Her mother died at the scene of the attack, which happened in April, reported the Shanghai Daily.

Doctors told the family that Wang Yan would not emerge from her coma and said it would be pointless to spend money on her treatment.

But her father and brother decided to sell everything they had to take her to Shanghai for treatment.

The family said they were able to bring only 8,000 yuan (S$1,600) there as they were almost broke from paying for the father's cancer treatment.

Wang Yan was admitted to Shanghai Blue Cross Brain Hospital in early June after her brother contacted the hospital.

Time needed to recover

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