Video shows a Chinese office worker beating her boss with a mop and accusing him of harassment. The boss has now been fired.

• A woman at a government agency in China accused her boss of sexual harassment.
• Video circulated online showing her beating him with a mop.
• The boss was later fired.

A government official in northeastern China has been fired after video circulated online showing a female employee beating him with a mop and accusing him of sexual harassment.

Chinese state news media said the incident happened in a government poverty agency in the Beilin district of Suihua, in China's Heilongjiang Province, according to the New York Times.

The video, which circulated on Weibo, showed a woman, who was later identified as her last name, Zhou, confronting her boss, identified only as Wang, The Times reported. Millions have seen the video since it was first posted last week.

Zhou can be seen in the video throwing items at Wang before picking up a mop to attack him. Wang sits at his desk throughout the altercation.

It's unclear when the confrontation took place, but The Times cited local news reports saying that the woman had filed a police report accusing her boss of harassment.

According to The Times, Wang sent Zhou unwanted text messages and given other women in the office unwanted attention.

An internal investigation found that the boss, who was a director at the agency, had "life discipline problems" and was fired from official duties.

Zhou was not disciplined.