A
twenty-eight-year-old man admitted killing 19 people, including his parents and
three children, when he went on trial in southwest China on Wednesday, the
court said.
After
returning to his home village in Yunnan province on September 28 last year,
Yang Qingpei murdered his parents when they refused to give him money, the
Qujing City Intermediate People’s Court said on its official microblog account.
Fearing
he would be discovered, Yang then killed 17 of his neighbours and fled to
Yunnan’s provincial capital Kunming, it said, adding that the murder weapon was
a pickaxe.
Yang,
who was born in 1989, pleaded guilty to all charges and apologised to the
relatives of the dead, it added.
While
mass killings are rare, violent crime has been on the rise in China in recent
decades as the economy has boomed and the gap between rich and poor has
expanded rapidly.
Studies
have also described a rise in the prevalence of mental disorders, some of them
linked to stress, as the pace of life becomes faster and support systems
wither.
-AFP
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