Body snatchers face prosecution

Two officials in Guangdong province and a man from the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region have been prosecuted for body snatching as they traded corpses for cremation to complete quotas in accordance with burial reform.

According to the police in Beiliu, in Guangxi, Dong Mouqing and He Mouming, officials in charge of funeral affairs in two counties in Guangdong bought dead bodies from Zhong Moufu, a body snatcher in Guangxi, and cremated the corpses in a local crematorium.

Dong, the head of the government general office in Nawu county, Huazhou, Guangdong province, was introduced to Zhong by his predecessor in November 2013 and asked Zhong to provide corpses at 3,000 yuan ($490) each.