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Chinese teen sentenced to life in prison for classmate’s death
A Chinese court has sentenced two teenagers over the death of their classmate in March.
The teens in Hebei province, identified only by their surnames Zhang and Li, were 13 years old when they conspired to kill their classmate Wang and split his money between them.
After attacking Wang with a shovel, they buried him in an abandoned vegetable greenhouse, the court said in a statement on Monday, adding that their “methods were especially cruel and circumstances especially vile”.
The teenagers were sentenced to life imprisonment and 12 years imprisonment, respectively.