China has reportedly executed a man who allegedly kept six women as 'sex slaves' and forced three of them to kill two of their fellow captives.
Li Hao, 36, from Henan province had been sentenced to death in 2012 for charges including murder, rape, organised prostitution and illegal detention.
According to the BBC, Li, who was married at the time of his arrest, had built a dungeon at a basement in Luoyang city in 2009, where he held the women, until one escaped in 2011 and reported him.
Police said that Li, worked as a local government clerk wanted to make money by forcing the women into prostitution.
Previous reports indicated that he had kidnapped the women and held some of them for up to 21 months and repeated raped the women, aged between 16 to 23 at that time, and made them perform in pornographic web shows.
One of the women captives has received a jail term of three years while two others have been put on probation for the murders, the report added.