GANG LEADER EXECUTED IN CHINA

a former gang leader was executed in northern China after being convicted of murder, kidnapping, and extortion, state media reported. Xu Wei, a deputy manager of the Yushu City Thermal Power Co. in Yushu city in the northeastern province of Jilin, allegedly provided guns for the killing of a former rival and ordered a town leader killed in 1998. The 42-year-old gang leader was the son of Yushu's former deputy mayor.