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A maniac holds his fiancee hostage with a meat cleaver after her family refused to agree to their marriage.

The bare-chested boyfriend appeared to prove his potential in-laws right to oppose the wedlock as he forced his love to strip while he got down to his underpants in the terrifying roof-top siege.

Grabbing the cowering girl by her hair and holding the cleaver to her throat, the topless man – known only as Lin – held police at bay for over five hours.

Snipers surrounded the quiet residential block in the Chinese city of Sanya, as negotiators begged him to let her go.

As he climbed down and dragged the girl towards a getaway car laid on for him, armed officers pounced.

The man was later hauled away in cuffs, and is now facing a long prison sentence.

It turned out even his own parents had opposed the marriage.