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Man sentenced to death for stabbing 8 to death

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-06-11 21:42

NANCHANG - A man who stabbed eight people, including three family members, to death was sentenced to death at a court in East China's Jiangxi province, a court spokesman said Friday.

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Zhou Yezhong, 36, was charged with and convicted of willful murder in the first-instance trial by the Intermediary People's Court of Ji'an city of Jiangxi province, said Long Xiaomao, a spokesman of the court.

Zhou killed his mother, wife, 10-year-old daughter, four neighbors and one migrant worker with a knife in Badu township of Ji'an's Jishui county on May 8.

The county police caught him later that day.

Zhou, who had gambling problems, committed the murders after a fight with his wife, Long said.