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    Trio steals 'healing' bricks from Buddhist site

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    2015-10-09 09:28Global Times Editor: Li Yan

    All arrested for destroying relics

    Police in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province arrested three people Monday for swiping bricks from a 1,000-year-old Buddhist tower in the belief they would help their elderly relatives live longer, local media reported.

    The suspects, two men and one woman, are middle-aged tourists from Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, local police said.

    Tourists at Leifeng Pagoda called police after they saw the trio climb over a glass barrier and remove two bricks, the Zhejiang-based Youth Times reported Thursday.

    Officers arrived at the site and took the suspects into custody.

    The unnamed suspects told police they had intended to build a shrine around the bricks at home to protect their elderly family members.

    They had also planned to remove some soil from the site to prepare a medicinal "tea" for their relatives.

    Police said the three face charges of stealing cultural relics. The case is under investigation.

      

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