MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 6 PEOPLE IN E CHINA

a Chinese man was sentenced to death for murder, rape and burglary and fined 520,000 yuan, according to a ruling by a court in east China. Unemployed Dong Wenyu, 29, was convicted of killing six people, injuring two and raping several women during the course of five burglaries between March and May last year in eastern Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces, said the intermediate people's court in Jinhua city, Zhejiang Province. The court said Dong broke into his victims' houses at midnight while the house owners were asleep. He had previous convictions of willful and malicious injury and theft and had served previous jail terms of 18 months and two and a half years.