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3 miners get death for killing coworkers
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THREE Chinese miners have been sentenced to death for brutally murdering their coworkers before posing as relatives to claim compensation in a grisly series of scams, Xinhua news agency said yesterday.
The convicted were part of a group of 10 involved in the murders — with stones, hammers and shovels — in three regions, the report said.
They then posed as family members of their victims in order to con about 2.3 million yuan (US$360,000) from mine managers eager to hush up the incidents and avoid punishment.
The grisly murders took place during night shifts at several coal mines in northern China between 2010 and 2013, the Ningxia News Network said.
The murders were eerily similar to those depicted in the 2003 film “Blind Shaft,” which tells the story of two con artists who pose as relatives of mine workers they murder for compensation money.
The film won the Silver Bear award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The death sentences were handed down by a court in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region last week, Xinhua said.
Two other defendants received suspended death sentences, which are usually commuted to life in prison, while five others were given between three and 15 years in prison.
China — the world’s largest producer of coal — has for years suffered from work safety problems in the under-regulated sector.
Accidents in Chinese coal mines killed 931 people last year, a top work safety official said in March, though the total number of lethal mining accidents is declining.
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