'Ghost Brides'
Beijing - Chinese police have arrested three men for killing two young women to sell their corpses as "ghost brides" for dead single men, a Chinese newspaper re-ported, warning that the dark custom might have claimed many other victims.
Yang Donghai, a 35-year-old farmer in western China's Shaanxi province, confessed to killing a woman bought from a poor family for 12 000 yuan (about R11 000) last year.
She thought she was being sold into an arranged marriage, but Yang killed her in a gully and sold her corpse for 16 000 yuan, the Legal Daily reported yesterday. He and two accomplices then killed a prostitute and sold her for 8 000 yuan before police caught them. Read more.........Trio nabbed for selling murder victims as 'ghost brides'
Yang Donghai, a 35-year-old farmer in western China's Shaanxi province, confessed to killing a woman bought from a poor family for 12 000 yuan (about R11 000) last year.
She thought she was being sold into an arranged marriage, but Yang killed her in a gully and sold her corpse for 16 000 yuan, the Legal Daily reported yesterday. He and two accomplices then killed a prostitute and sold her for 8 000 yuan before police caught them. Read more.........Trio nabbed for selling murder victims as 'ghost brides'
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