After being on the run for 25 years, Chinese police have arrested a suspected mass murderer, who hacked to death six members of a family, the state-media reported today.
The man known only as Guo, admitted to having hacked a family of sixto death with an axe in Raohe county of Heilongjiang province in March 1991, following dispute over trivial matters.
Acting on information received earlier this month, police went to northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, apprehending Guo and his wife Wang last Sunday, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The case is still under investigation.