Holding a body to ransom height of inhumanity

SOME FISHERMEN in North China's Shanxi province fished out from a river the body of a woman who had apparently drowned in an upstream county in neighboring Shaanxi province. But they refused to hand over the body to the family members unless they were paid 100,000 yuan ($15,000). Gmw.com commented on Friday:

Holding a body to ransom is a cold-blooded act. And hiding the body under a bridge until the dead woman's family paid the greedy fishermen the amount they demanded is a brazen act of inhumanity.

The poor family offered the fishermen 60,000 yuan as "collection fee" but they refused.