Jealous husband cuts off wife's ears, severs tendon

A man who believed his wife was having an affair cut off her ears and severed her Achilles tendon in a revenge attack on Saturday, Beijing News reported yesterday.

The husband, surnamed Yang, and his wife Kan are migrant workers from Sichuan province. They have been married for 16 years and had been living in a rented house in the village of Heiqiao, Chaoyang district, Beijing.

A nurse at Huaxin Hospital, where Kan was taken after the attack, told China Daily yesterday: "The woman's ears have been stitched together and her condition is not life threatening.