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Man held after police find bodies in village

A MAN has been arrested after a killing spree that left 19 people dead in a village in southwest China’s Yunnan Province.

Yang Qingpei, who was born in 1989 and from the same village, was detained in provincial capital Kunming, according to a police statement.

The killings were in remote Yema village in a mountainous area some 200 kilometers south.

Xinhua news agency reported earlier that the villagers were found dead at their homes yesterday morning.

A list with the victims’ names circulating online showed they included 11 males and eight females, with the youngest a 3-year-old girl and the oldest 72. Four were under the age of 18.

The Ministry of Public Security has sent a working group to oversee the case and manage the investigation, reports said.


 

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