A 98-year-old woman in the Fangshan District has filed a lawsuit against her son for reporting her as dead seven years ago, reports Beijing Morning Post.

Li, the mother of three sons and a daughter, moved to a village in Shidu Town, Fangshan, to live with her daughter in 1996.

When she fell ill earlier this month and needed to get documentation of residency from her third son's village, where she used to live, for hospitalization purposes, the village committee expressed its surprise: "Didn't you die in 1996?"

It turned out that her daughter-in-law, the third son's wife, had reported her "death" to the village committee. According to the residency records of both the committee and the local police station, the elderly woman hadn't existed for seven years.

The angry woman asked her grandson to sue her son and daughter-in-law on her behalf, demanding compensation of 20,000 yuan (US$2,400).

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