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1st Ld-Writethru: Three detained after China telecom fraud fatality

Xinhua, August 26, 2016 Adjust font size:

Three people have been detained in connection with a telecom fraud case in east China's Shandong Province, believed to have led to the death of a teenager, police said Friday.

The case came to public attention Friday following widespread media reports of the death of Xu Yuyu, an 18-year-old high school graduate in Linyi City.

Xu was reported to have lost 9,900 yuan (1,490 U.S. dollars) of her university tuition fees to telecom fraudsters and, according to reports, died of a cardiac arrest on Aug. 19.

The Ministry of Public Security has identified six suspects. Three of them have been apprehended and three others remain at large.

The ministry put the three fugitives on a most-wanted list Friday and offered an award of 50,000 yuan for information or assistance leading to the arrest of the suspects.

Just a few miles away in Linyi, another student, Song Zhenning, was also reported to have died in the same way, having lost money in another fraud case.

A third similar incident has also been reported in the city. Endi