Ministry launches probe into police shooting

The Ministry of Public Security has launched a probe into the case of a policeman who shot two villagers dead in the southwestern province of Guizhou amid growing public discontent about the motive behind the shooting.

"A team sent by the Ministry of Public Security has arrived to investigate the incident," Wu Baocheng, an official with the information department for the city of Anshun in Guizhou, told China Daily on Friday.

On Tuesday, Zhang Lei, a deputy police chief in Pogong town near Anshun, allegedly shot dead two local villagers with his gun.