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(China Daily) Updated: 2017-05-12 07:29

Shaanxi

Men imprisoned over fake money

Two men were sentenced to 10 years, and 10 years and six months respectively, and each fined 100,000 yuan ($14,500) in Xi'an on May 2 for producing and attempting to distribute fake bank notes. In their attempts to send the counterfeit bank notes to another suspect in July, they pretended they were sending mobile phone sim cards. A courier, surnamed Yang, sought police help when he suspected the contents of the packages were not sim cards and the men refused to show him their identity cards. Police later seized a large amount of fake bank notes and related equipment used to produce them at a house rented by the men.

Huashang Daily

Guizhou

Police track down robbery suspect

A suspected robber, surnamed Tang, who was on police wanted lists in several mainland provinces, was recently detained in Daye. Tang, 36, said that in his attempts to avoid being detained, he had even failed to take his wife to hospital after she was seriously injured when his car collided with a truck in January. Tang's wife later died from her injuries. Tang is suspected of committing robberies in many cities, stealing property worth a total of more than 1 million yuan ($145,000).

Chutian Metropolis Daily

Hunan

Seed removed from girl's lung

A 6-year-old girl, surnamed Rong, who had a cough and a fever for three years has been relieved of her symptoms after doctors removed a melon seed from one of her lungs during a bronchoscopy at Hunan People's Hospital on May 1. Rong, who lives in Loudi, was taken to see doctors in Changsha, who found the melon seed had sprouted in her lung. Rong's mother said she once caught Rong putting melon seeds into her mouth when she was only 3 years old, but she had not considered that one may have entered her lung.

Xiaoxiang Morning Post

Student hides to avoid extra classes

A 12-year-old girl, surnamed Yu, who had been missing for 26 hours, was found hiding under a stairwell in a building of her residential community in Changsha on April 30. The sixth-grade student said she hid because she did not want to attend extra classes during the May Day holiday. Yu left home for an English training course at 8 am on April 29, but she did not return home after class at 12 pm. When her parents contacted the school, Yu's teacher said she had not attended the class. Yu's family said they spent more than a day scouring the city for her before she was found.

Voc.com.cn

Shandong

Hiker found stuck in tree after fall

A female hiker, surnamed Peng, who had fallen down a cliff, was rescued after being found by a senior citizen doing his morning exercises in Jinan on May 2. The man sought police help when he saw the 26-year-old Peng, who had fallen the previous evening, stuck in a tree. It took firefighters and police officers more than two hours to free Peng and transport her to a nearby hospital.

Qilu Evening News