A blogger in China was beaten to death on while filming a confrontation between villagers and the authorities

Wei Wenhua, a 41-year-old construction company executive, was filming a protest Wanba, a village on the outskirts of Tianmen in Hubei on his mobile phone when officials turned on him and beat him, the Guardian reports.

According to CNN Chinese authorities have detained 24 municipal inspectors and are investigating more than 100.