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Police nab suspect in mass murder in NE China

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-04-15 17:22

SHENYANG - Police in northeast China's Liaoning Province said Friday afternoon that they had captured a man suspected of killing 10 people, including his father, wife and son.

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Zhou Yuxin, the 33-year-old suspect, was caught in Dashiqiao City, nearly 100 kilometers away from the crime scene in Anshan City, an official with Anshan's police bureau told Xinhua.

Ten bodies were found Thursday at a bathhouse and a neighboring car wash in Ertaizi Village, Ningyuan Town in Anshan.

Among the dead were Zhou's wife, son, father, a female bathhouse worker, three family members of Zhou's landlord and three carwash workers.

Police said extramarital affairs were possibly behind the killing spree, which happened between late Wednesday and early Thursday.

Zhou was seized by Dashiqiao's local police. Officers from Anshan's police bureau were on their way to fetch the suspect, said the official.