This shocking image captures the moment a young mother was beaten to death by alleged members of a religious cult that was trying to recruit her.
Wu Ting, 23, is believed to have refused to give her telephone number to members of the All-Powerful Spirit cult moments before she was smashed round the head with a mop.
People watch on helplessly as the attack continues with the young woman lying on the ground as the man who appears to be attacking her is egged on by fellow members of the cult.
Nobody stepped in to help the woman, instead standing around before leaving the McDonald's before standing outside and watching through the window.
The lack of action by other people has shocked many in China where the incident happened.
In a video of the attack a woman can be heard shouting "beat her to death" while someone else says "call the police".
It is alleged that the five other people in the group then joined in the attack, kicking the woman in the head.
They beat her with the mop until the handle broke, leaving the mother of a young son lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the restaurant at Zhaoyuan in the Shandong province, in China’s far east.
According to police four of the six who carried out the attack were members of the same family and they were arrested by officers as they were trying to leave the fast food restaurant.
The six include Zhang Fu, his two daughters and a son, as well as two women, and all were detained apart from the son, who is under the age of legal responsibility in China. The investigation against the minor has been handed over to a juvenile court to deal with.
After the arrest police also recovered pamphlets that the group had been distributing about their religion. The McDonald's is located across the street from a local police station.
Police spokesman Sheng Chang said: "Our information is that they were looking to recruit new members and had tried to talk to the woman to persuade her to hand over her telephone number."
The All Powerful Spirit cult was founded in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang in the early 1990s and later spread to the country’s eastern provinces. The cults philosophy is based on a distorted reading of the Christian Bible and it was banned under the country's corporals in 1995.
Seventeen of its members had been arrested in Beijing in December 2012 for harassing people in a public park and claiming the world was coming to an end.
Organised religion is prohibited in China but there has been a growing number of Christian and Buddhist movements starting to emerge in the past few years.
Zhaoyuan is in Shandong province, a traditional hotbed for religious cults. The region gave birth to the violent anti-Christian Boxer movement that laid siege to Western interests in Beijing and elsewhere during the waning years of the Qing dynasty in 1900.
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