Suspect kills ex-wife's family after rejection

A man hacked to death three members of his ex-wife's family, including two children, and injured another two after his former wife refused to resume relations with him in Chengde, Hebei province.

The 39-year-old accused, surnamed Shi, a former taxi driver, killed his former wife's mother and two nephews, both younger than 10 at a rented apartment in the Shaanxiying residential community in downtown Chengde, at about 5 pm on Monday, a witness, surnamed Chen, told China Daily yesterday.

Shi then broke into a ward of the Chengde Central Hospital, where two of his wife's sisters were lodged, and attacked them with a kitchen knife, injuring them seriously, Chen said.