2 arrested after China telecom fraud fatality

Two men have been arrested in connection with a telecom fraud case in east China's Shandong Province, believed to have led to the death of a teenager, local 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.

Just a few miles away, 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.

Source : XINHUA