Official dies in detention

Investigation team seizes security video of detention center

CHENGDU - An investigation has been launched into the death of an official who died less than a week before he was to go on trial for misusing money allocated to victims of the Sichuan earthquake.

A post-mortem examination has been conducted on the body of Pu Zemin, former chief of the civil affairs office in the Wulong township in Yanting county, to help determine the cause of death, said Ren Tong, chief of Yanting's information office.