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Boy hung up, beaten for taking parents' money

Metro | Crime and public security
2011-8-16

FURIOUS parents hung their 12-year-old son on a pole by his hands and feet, lashed him with a whip and then beat him with a wooden club for 30 minutes in public after he stole 300 yuan from them to play video games. ...

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Double killer suspect found drowned

Metro | Crime and public security
2011-8-15

A MAN sought by police over the murder of an elderly woman and her young grandchild was found drowned in a creek yesterday morning. The suspect, surnamed Ni, aged 52, was found in Liuxiao Creek of Chongming Island,...

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Arrest for secret video of neighbor in shower

Metro | Crime and public security
2011-8-15

A MAN alleged to have secretly filmed a neighbor taking a shower and then tried to blackmail her has been arrested, Minhang District prosecutors said yesterday. Wang Chao, faces charges of extortion for trying...

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Man stabs woman and girl to death

Metro | Crime and public security
2011-8-14

A MAN killed a seven-year-old girl and her grandmother yesterday over an alleged personal vendetta in Shanghai's Chongming County. Officers said they received a call at 8:23am with the caller saying a man had...

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Tourist dies in bus trip tragedy

Metro | Crime and public security
2011-8-13

A TRIP to a famous mountain resort town turned to tragedy for Shanghai travelers when their bus overturned on a wet expressway in neighboring Zhejiang Province yesterday. One man was killed and more than 40 others,...

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45 injured as bus overturns

Metro | Crime and public security
2011-8-12

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Raining money

Metro | Crime and public security
2011-8-12

POLICE are investigating who was so "generous" as to scatter more than 10 100-yuan notes in the past two days in a high-rise building in suburban Jiading District. The money came down from the No. 5 building in...

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Bunkhouse falls

Metro | Crime and public security
2011-8-12

ONE person was killed and eight injured late yesterday after a bunkhouse in a suburban area collapsed in heavy rain and wind, city authorities said. Rescue work was continuing at 9pm yesterday at the site in Pudong's...

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Five more detained in diesel fuel thefts

Metro | Crime and public security
2011-8-12

SHANGHAI police have detained five people and accused them of stealing nearly 10 tons of diesel fuel from trucks in Songjiang District. Police said the gang was connected to suspects caught earlier this year....

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Wife attacks husband's mistress, drinks poison

Metro | Crime and public security
2011-8-12

AN angry wife stabbed a mistress in love with her husband, forcing her to jump off the third floor, and then tried to commit suicide by drinking pesticide yesterday morning in the suburban Jiading District, police...

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Girl fell while stuck in shaft

Metro | Crime and public security
2011-8-12

SHANGHAI police said yesterday that the teenage girl found dead in an elevator shaft on Wednesday was killed in an accident. Lu Feng, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau spokesman, said the victim, who was mentally...

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Body in lift shaft

Metro | Crime and public security
2011-8-11

A woman's body was found yesterday in a 12-story building's elevator shaft in Huangpu District, police said. The woman, not identified, was about 30, police said. The woman was found by an elevator maintenance...

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Gas kills pair

Metro | Crime and public security
2011-8-11

TWO people were killed in an alleged gas poisoning at home yesterday in Baoshan District, city police said. A family of three were found lying at home in a residential complex. The man and the daughter were dead...

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Suspects caught

Metro | Crime and public security
2011-8-11

CITY police said yesterday that three suspects have been caught in the killing of a man in a villa in suburban Qingpu District last week. A man in his 80s was stabbed to death in the Saturday incident after he...

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Glass falls 30 floors to street

Metro | Crime and public security
2011-8-11

FOUR sheets of curtain wall glass fell off a high-rise building in Shanghai late Tuesday, injuring one person. The mishap occurred about 9:30pm when the glass fell from a 30th-floor apartment building in Jing'an...