Inner Mongolia

Nurse slain during house call, body burned

A man in Da'an city was detained by police after allegedly killing a nurse who came to his house to provide treatment, cnr.cn reported on Monday. The authorities said the man, a farmer surnamed Zhou from the city's Dalai township, lured the nurse from a local clinic to his house on Sept 6, saying that he needed an injection. He then killed her and burned her body after failing to rape her, they said. Zhou was captured on Sept 8. The case is under investigation.

Hunan

Students cite study pressure, leap to death

Two high school students died by jumping from a campus dormitory early on Monday, leaving notes saying they could not endure the pressure of study. Both boys were 10th-grade students at Linli No 1 Middle School. They jumped from the fifth floor of their dormitory building minutes after midnight. Both left notes saying they felt too much pressure and were distressed that their scores did not meet their own expectations or those of their parents.

6 killed, 33 injured in fireworks plant blast

An explosion at a fireworks plant in Hunan province left six people dead and 33 others injured on Monday, local authorities said. The blast happened at around 3 pm at a fireworks factory in Baofeng, a village in Liling, the city government's information office said. The cause of the explosion is under investigation. Liling is a major production base for fireworks in the country.

Heilongjiang

Officers convicted for torturing suspects

Three police officers and four other people have been convicted of torturing suspects to obtain confessions. The seven cases happened in March 2013 at the Daowai district police sub-bureau in the northeastern city of Harbin. Three police officers and four people hired by police to help with the investigations were convicted and given prison sentences of up to two and a half years, it said.

China Daily - Xinhua