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Killer of six Chinese police executed in Shanghai

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-11-26 12:59

SHANGHAI -- Yang Jia, a 28-year-old man who had been convicting of killing six police officers in Shanghai earlier this year, was executed here on Wednesday morning with the approval of the Supreme People's Court.

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Yang Jia, from Beijing, on July 1 stormed into a Shanghai police bureau and killed six officers.

The Shanghai High Court rejected Yang's appeal against his death sentence in October.

Yang, 28, was sentenced to death on September 1 in the first trial at the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court for killing six officers and injuring four others in the July 1 assault.