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A court in Xingxian county, Shanxi province, sentenced a man to three years in prison for kidnapping his mother-in-law in May.
Following a quarrel, the man's wife left home in February.
After all efforts to find his wife failed, he barged into his mother-in-law's house and took her to a cave, trying to force her to reveal where her daughter was.
On the advice of his parents, the accused freed the hostage and surrendered to the police later that day.
(Shanxi Evening News)