All suspects in Lhasa arson cases arrested

All the key suspects in the four major arson cases during the recent Lhasa riots - in which 12 people were burnt to death - have been arrested, local police have said.

Jiang Zaiping, deputy head of the public security bureau in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, said the four cases include three at clothing stores in downtown Lhasa on March 14 and one in Dagze county on March 15.

In one of the most-widely reported cases, five women sales assistants in their 20s at Yi Shion fashion store were burned to death by rioters.