Across China: Hubei

Body finding fee returned

A local salvage company has returned the money it charged for retrieving the bodies of three college students who died while trying to rescue two children from drowning in a river in Hubei province.

The Jingzhou Baling Salvage Company handed over the 36,300 yuan (12,000 yuan for each body and 300 yuan for cigarettes, liquor and bottled water) to the public security bureau of Jingzhou on Sunday, the Hubei Daily reported.