Chinese 'highway house' is demolished

A car stops beside a house in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang province, November 22, 2012. An elderly couple refused to sign an agreement to allow their house to be demolished. They say that compensation offered is not enough to cover rebuilding costs, according to local media. Their house is the only building left standing on a road which is paved through their village.

Luo Baogen, 67, smokes in his house which stands alone in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang province, November 24, 2012.

Luo Baogen, 67, walks in his house which stands alone in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang province, November 24, 2012.

An old man looks down from his house which stands alone in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang province, November 22, 2012.

 

A house is seen in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang province, November 24, 2012. 

A car drives past a house which stands alone in middle of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang province, November 22, 2012.

Workers demolish a residential building near a house standing in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang province, November 24, 2012.

An excavator is used to demolish a house standing alone in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang province December 1, 2012.

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