Fisherman in China sentenced to 7 years in prison for cutting undersea fibre-optic cables

Beijing: A Chinese fisherman has been sentenced to seven years of jail for snapping undersea fibre-optic cables that affected one lakh users and cost the nation USD 384,000 to restore it.

The fisherman, identified only by his surname Yang, was sentenced by a court in China’s island province of Hainan, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.