The People's High Court in the eastern province of...

The People's High Court in the eastern province of Zhejiang announced that Yan Liang, 31, an employee of China Unicom's Quzhou branch, had been executed on terrorist charges for sending a mail bomb that killed his boss. The court said that Yan was executed earlier in 2003 in east China's Zhejiang Province, the local people's court confirmed. Yan Liang, a clerk at the Quzhou Branch of China Unicom, sent an anonymous parcel in August 2002 with a homemade bomb inside to his manager surnamed Chen. Chen was killed immediately when he opened the mail and the bomb exploded. Yan, 31, was tracked down by police and taken into custody the following month and was accused of a revenge murder, according to the Higher People's Court of Zhejiang Province. He reportedly came to hate the company's officer, surnamed Wang, because he believed Wang's rejection of his use of the company car to take his father to the hospital had directly resulted in his father's death of cerebral haemorrhage. Yan's anger with Wang later shifted to Chen because of other spats and he finally decided to take his revenge on Chen. Yan was given the death penalty on October 22, 2002, while Xu Zhenxiu, who sold the explosives to Yan, was sentenced to seven years in jail.