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JIANGXI

300,000 yuan reward offered for suspect

Police in Jiangxi province's Le'an county offered a 300,000 yuan ($43,200) reward on Thursday for information leading to the capture of the man suspected of killing three people and injuring another in the past week. The reward was raised from 50,000 yuan on Saturday after media reports said that Zeng Chunliang, the suspect, killed a local poverty relief official on Thursday while fleeing from police who were pursuing him over a homicide case in which two were killed and one was injured on Saturday. During the manhunt, an auxiliary police officer in Le'an was hit by a truck while examining vehicles passing by a provincial-level highway and died on Thursday afternoon.

YUNNAN

Mudslide leads railway to suspend service

Heavy rain triggered a mudslide on Thursday morning, prompting authorities to suspend services on a section of a railway in Yunnan province. China Railway Kunming Group said the mudslide hit Lahadi Station on the Kunming-Hekou meter-gauge railway at about 3:20 am, submerging some trains parked at the station and disrupting railway communication. All of the 48 staff members and their families at the station have been evacuated, and service on a section of the railway has been suspended. The company has mobilized workers to repair the railway, which handles China's exports to Vietnam, and has redirected freight trains to another standard-gauge railway.

HUNAN

40,000 masks sent to US sister city

Changsha municipal government has donated 40,000 medical-grade face masks to Annapolis, Maryland, its sister city in the United States, local media reported. The donation from Changsha, capital of Hunan province, was first offered to officials in Annapolis, Maryland's capital, in April, when the need for masks among public safety workers was at its highest in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a statement by Annapolis City Manager David Jarrell. The masks arrived in August, with one of the boxes featuring stickers of US and Chinese flags with a message reading:"Go, City of Annapolis! Best Wishes from Changsha! True unity inspires people to work as one to overcome adversity," the Capital Gazette newspaper reported.

BEIJING

Return of assets in criminal cases sped up

China's law enforcement authorities have issued rules to expedite the return of assets in criminal cases to improve the efficacy of the use of poverty relief funds. According to rules issued by the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security, assets in criminal cases in the poverty relief area should be returned within five working days to relevant individuals or organizations after law enforcement departments have approved them.

Xinhua