Team sent to investigate missing children's case
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E-mail Xinhua, May 23, 2012
The Ministry of Public Security has sent an inspection team to Yunnan Province to supervise and reinforce the investigation of a case concerning at least seven missing teenagers, the ministry said Wednesday.
The ministry sent a special group of criminologists to look into the case earlier this month, after media reported that seven or eight teenagers had gone missing over the years near the village of Nanmen in Jincheng Township, Jinning County, which lies under the jurisdiction of the provincial capital Kunming.
Among the missing youngsters, a 19-year-old boy, identified as Han Yao, has been confirmed murdered.
Local police also launched an investigation and detained on May 9 a middle-aged man named Zhang Yongming, in whose home the dead boy's telephone card, bank card and other cards were found.
Zhang, 56, is currently under interrogation.
Families of the missing youngsters suspect that they were likely to have been forced to work in illegal brick kilns.
The ministry has urged the team to resolve the case as fast as possible.
Jinning county authorities have decided to remove the county's police chief Da Qiming from his position following the case, sources with the provincial authorities said Wednesday.
Another official Zhao Huiyun, head of the Jincheng Township police station, will also be dismissed, according to the sources. Their removal is being handled according to procedures.
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