{"id":256996,"date":"2026-01-29T03:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/256996\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T03:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:54:12","slug":"chinese-team-search-for-man-who-burnt-baby-with-coffee-in-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/256996\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese team search for man who burnt baby with coffee in Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Chinese team will visit Australia to help search for a man who randomly attacked a baby with hot coffee before fleeing the country. <\/p>\n

China’s Ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian announced on Wednesday that investigators will travel to Queensland to work with police to investigate the 33-year-old accused attacker.<\/p>\n

The stranger allegedly dumped a Thermos of coffee on nine-month-old boy Luka at a Brisbane park on August 27, 2024, before fleeing to his home country.<\/p>\n

Luka suffered horrific burns to his chest, neck and face and endured eight surgeries, including grafts and laser treatments. <\/p>\n

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A baby injured after hot coffee was poured on him in Brisbane. (Source: GoFundMe)<\/p>\n

Minutes after police discovered the man’s identity and released CCTV images of him, they learnt he had flown to China 12 hours earlier. <\/p>\n

Speaking in Canberra on Wednesday, the Chinese ambassador said a “working group” would travel to Brisbane to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n

“I’m not sure if I should announce this at this moment, but there’s going to be a working group from China coming to Brisbane,” Xiao said.<\/p>\n

“We’re now preparing for the working group to come, so we are serious in addressing this concern, and we’re serious in taking the necessary actions.”<\/p>\n

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A still from CCTV of a man suspected of pouring hot liquid on a baby at a park in Brisbane. (Source: Queensland Police Service) (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

Xiao said the team will work with Australian police to “see what exactly happened, how it happened, and how both sides can work together as a follow-up”.<\/p>\n

Australian Federal Police have been working with Chinese authorities since the alleged attacker left the country on August 31, 2024.<\/p>\n

There is no extradition treaty between Australia and China.<\/p>\n

Queensland Police Service and Australian Federal Police said they are supportive of the delegation visiting Brisbane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese team will visit Australia to help search for a man who randomly attacked a baby with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2300,85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-256996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-crime-and-justice","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}