Dozens of corpses stolen for alleged college guarantee  

鄉(xiāng)村數(shù)十具尸體被盜 有盜墓者稱盜尸可保兒子上大學(xué)

從2000年開始，這種現(xiàn)象在村里頻繁出現(xiàn)。尸體被盜在村里已持續(xù)了十幾年，被盜的尸體多為女性。盜去的尸體已腐爛，村民也時(shí)常在村里發(fā)現(xiàn)被肢解的尸體。[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- Dozens of female corpses have been stolen in a southwest China village in the past several years, some of which reappeared days later, but dismembered, the Chengdu-based West China City Daily reported.

The newspaper said a woman's corpse was stolen Sunday in Zhuxi village, Dazhou city of Sichuan province, the latest among a series of cases troubling local villagers since the year 2000.

A villager named Chen Zuqing hired two guards to protect his wife's body for a month after she was buried on Sept. 27. But the corpse was stolen the first day after the two guards left, Chen said.

Tang Fang, another villager, said her aunt's corpse was stolen the second day after it was buried last year, but was found in a field that same afternoon.

A villager surnamed Wang said most of the stolen corpses have been female.

According to the village's party secretary, a corpse thief who was captured in 2008 had said he was told by a fortune-teller to steal corpses to guarantee that his son would get into college. Tang said the thief has worked in Zhejiang since being released from prison.

A villager surnamed Li suggested that young villagers should keep watch over corpses, but no one volunteered.