Police deny vice-head suicide claims

The dubious death of a provincial level party official from the Ningxia Hui autonomous region remained unclear yesterday.

Staff at a Peking University hotel found a dead man lying in blood on Tuesday, according to yesterday's reports from the Beijing News.

The body was yesterday identified as 48-year-old Zhao Xianchun, vice-head of Ningxia's organization department, a Party institution that organizes personnel throughout the region's government as well as in industry.