A screenshot of a surveillance video from a residential community in Changsha, Central China’s Hunan Province, captures the incident involving a food delivery worker caught a cat. Video was released by The Beijing News.

A food delivery worker in Changsha, Central China’s Hunan Province, has been permanently banned from the platform after he reportedly threw a cat to its death from the 26th floor of a building, according to media reports. 
 
A surveillance video from a residential community in Changsha captured the incident involving a food delivery worker caught a cat and threw it off a 26th-floor rooftop, drawing widespread attention, according to a report by The Beijing News on Sunday. 

The incident occurred around 7 pm on Friday, according to a person in charge of the property management from the residential community involved. The delivery worker took the cat to the 26th floor rooftop and threw off the edge. The cat landed in a greenbelt area, where it crawled a few meters before dying, said the person in charge, according to The Beijing News.  

The person noted that the cat was a stray regularly fed by residents, and there had been complaints about it making noise in the early morning hours, according to the report. 

Local authorities confirmed that police have initiated an investigation into the matter, the report said.

The food delivery staff has been permanently banned and removed from the delivery platform, according to the report.

The news has sparked widespread discussion on Chinese social media, with many users expressing outrage over the delivery worker’s act of animal cruelty. The incident has also raised questions about whether the worker’s behavior could be prosecuted under laws addressing objects thrown from heights.

“Poor cat,” one Sina Weibo user wrote. 
 
From a moral perspective, the act of brutally abusing animals to death in public has a profoundly negative impact on the public, another Weibo user wrote.
 
“It’s terrifying. I hope the laws punish such people severely,” one Weibo user said.
 
China’s related law stipulates that the act of throwing objects from buildings or high altitudes, with serious circumstances, is punishable by up to one year in prison, detention, control, or a fine.

Global Times