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Officials probed over court killer

POLICE in central China's Hunan Province are investigating three China Post branch security officials over failure to observe firearm management regulations after the head of a security squad shot dead three judges and injured three more court officials before committing suicide.

Zhu Jun, head of a security squad of a China Post branch in Lingling District, opened fire with a submachine gun in the office of Lingling District court in Yongzhou City about 10:05am on Tuesday before shooting himself.

Zhu, 46, had taken the submachine gun and two pistols from the bank's firearms keeper at 7:30am, saying he would have the guns examined by the higher authorities.

His three subordinates are now being investigated for dereliction of duty.

Under Chinese law, bullets and guns should be kept separately in store house, and only officers with escort missions can take the guns out with permission of at least two firearms keepers.

Police found that Zhu was a cancer patient who has been suicidal and depressed after he divorced his wife three years ago.

Lingling District Court was then the court that handled a property case of Zhu's. Though the court ruled in favor of Zhu, supporting all his appeals, he was not satisfied because the implementation of the sentence was too slow.

Local police said that might be a motive for Zhu's shooting rampage, yesterday's Oriental Morning Post reported.

Xinhua news agency quoted Zhu's family as saying Zhu had held a grudge against the Lingling court because its judges unjustly handled property division in his divorce case.

The three injured court staffers were still in hospital, two in serious condition.

Security measures at the court office building were also questioned, but a court official said that security was tight.


 

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