People’s Armed Police in Lincang city, Yunnan province China’s have found 1.6kg of crystal methamphetamine concealed in a shipment of pumpkins, the China News Service reports. The police at a highway cargo checkpoint stopped the truck packed with pumpkins at about midnight on Sunday. Police became suspicious when they found the truck was bound for Hubei, hundreds of kilometres away. As the low-worth cargo would not justify the road transport cost for such a long journey, police ordered a thorough inspection they yielded six hollowed pumpkins containing the drugs. Another bag was found in a gap between the pumpkins. Two suspects were arrested on the spot.
HUNAN
Mentally disabled child holds up train
A mentally challenged child stood on the rail track and stopped a running train in Changsha on Wednesday, the Information Times reports. The driver of a cargo train on the Beijing-Guangzhou line spotted a man waving on the track ahead around noon and immediately activated emergency brake. Police rushed to the scene to find a 13-year-old jumping and laughing on the rail. “I’m only here to look at the train. Please don’t hit me or arrest me,” he told the police. He was brought to the local police station, where his mother came to take him home. The mother explained that the boy was mentally challenged from birth and had left school a year ago.
ZHEJIANG
Act of revenge backfires for jealous former boyfriend