Internet Addiction Kills Man in Cafe

In news from China, a man in the Guangzhou province dropped dead of exhaustion in an internet cafe after playing online games for three days straight. China has over 140 million internet users, second only to the United States. Many chinese have become internet addicts.

The Chinese state newspaper did not report the man's name nor mention what game(s) the man had been playing. Apparently paramedics arrived on the scene but were unable to revive the man and declared him dead in the cafe.

Several cities in China have psychiatric facilities to treat internet addicts.