Inebriated legislator mows down four

SHANGHAI - A city legislator of East China's Zhejiang province has been detained for a drunk driving accident, which left four people dead and six injured, local police said on Tuesday.

Yang Shuzhong, 48, a deputy of the people's congress both in Sanmen county and Taizhou city, was taken into police custody after he hit eight vehicles with his black BMW in Sanmen at around 8 pm on Monday, said Yang Zhen, publicity officer with the county's public security bureau.

Three people died on the spot and another passed away at a hospital after the deputy's car rammed into five electric bicycles and one rickshaw within a range of 193 meters.