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Three people in northeast China 's Jilin Province were...

Three people in northeast China 's Jilin Province were given their final ruling on their death sentences and were executed on the same day

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Three people in northeast China 's Jilin Province were given their final ruling on their death sentences and were executed on the same day.
Jin Quanhong, Han Xiangguo and Han Changguo were found guilty of looting a number of tombs which were up to 2000 years old, according to the Higher People's Court of Jilin which made the final ruling.
Between Autumn 1997 and July 2000, they and several other accomplices plundered and damaged a number of valuable frescos in the tombs, then sold them to a person in the Republic of Korea.
The three had originally been sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court of Tonghua City on July 29, 2002.
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  • (Sources: Xinhua News Agency, 16/03/2003)