Bloodbath across Asian stock markets 5 Photos . Updated: 24 Aug 2015, 12:49 PM IST Livemint The Chinese dragon bears down on Asian markets creating a market mayhem 1/5The Shanghai composite index tumbled 9% —China’s stocks plunged the most since 2007 as government support measures failed to allay investor concerns that a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy is deepening. AFP 2/5Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index dropped 4.6%. The biggest five-day retreat for Japanese equities since the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, saw the Topix index take losses since an Aug 10 high to more than 12%. Bloomberg 3/5Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index fell 7.6% as a result of the Chinese meltdown. Reuters 4/5Seoul shares had their sharpest daily percentage loss in more than 3 years on Monday. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) ended down 2.5%, to 1,829.81 points, its biggest percentage fall since June, 4, 2012. Reuters 5/5In India, the Sensex dived 1,000 points as China fuels a global sell off. The rupee weakened past the 66 mark against the US dollar as a sharp fall in Chinese equity markets hurt sentiment in emerging markets. Reuters