The family of an eight-month pregnant woman who died after getting her neck caught in a roadside guardrail in northwest China refused an autopsy, making the cause of her death still a mystery.

Video clips showed Feng Bo, 32, walked to the guardrail and slowly kneeled down, with her neck trapped between the steel bars, on Monday in Mizhi County, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province.

Several passers-by tried to break the rails but all efforts went in vain, Huashang newspaper reported yesterday.

A police officer, not identified, said video clips of the accident showed Feng had showed abnormal body signs before she fainted, which suggested she might have died before she got her neck stuck, the paper reported.

He said he had suggested the woman's family allow an autopsy on her, but was refused, making police unable to determine the exact cause of her death.

Li Yukun, director of Mizhi Civil Affairs Bureau, said authorities in Feng’s hometown of Gaoqu, under administration of Mizhi, have been ordered to offer help to her family. But he didn't specify whether it was compensation, the paper reported.

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