Woman detained for setting mountain fire to collect plastic bottles for money

A woman in Panzhou, Southwest China's Guizhou Province, was detained for setting fire to a mountain in an attempt to collect plastic bottles which she planned to sell for money, according to a statement from the local government's official WeChat account on Monday.

According to the report, the woman, surnamed Luo, said that she believed people fighting fires in the mountains would leave behind many plastic water bottles, which she then planned to collect and sell for profit. 

Luo was found out to repeatedly use a lighter to ignite the weeds in the mountain forest. She has been detained by the local public security bureau on suspicion of arson.