 Man slaughtered 19 after family argument: police Beijing (AFP) Sept 30, 2016 - A man has confessed to killing 19 people in a village in southwestern China after an argument with his parents over money, official media said Friday. The suspect, named Yang Qingpei, confessed to murdering his parents after returning to his hometown village of Yema in China's mountainous Yunnan Province and asking them for money, Xinhua news agency cited local police as saying. He then proceeded to kill 17 neighbours, including children, to prevent them discovering and reporting the murders, it said. Yang, who was born in 1989, was arrested in the provincial capital of Kunming, some 200 km (124 miles) away, after 33 hours of "arduous investigation", a statement on the official social media account of the Yunnan police showed. Earlier reports showed the villagers were found dead at their homes on Thursday morning. A list with the victims' names circulating online showed they included 11 males and eight females, with the youngest a three-year-old girl and the oldest 72. Four names were minors under 18, the list showed. Yunnan officers have verified the list and the news release, Beijing News reported, adding that the police have said there was no link to terrorism. The Ministry of Public Security sent a working group to oversee the case and manage local authorities in the investigation, reports said. Video footage circulating online reportedly from the village showed swarms of police and heavily armed officers in fatigues walking the streets and a young man in jeans handcuffed on the ground.
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At least eight people have died and around 19 are still missing after devastating landslides swept through two eastern Chinese villages, local authorities told the official Xinhua news agency Saturday.
Heavy wind and torrential rains brought by Typhoon Medi triggered the landslides on Wednesday, burying dozens of homes from the villages of Sucun and Baofeng in Zhejiang province's Suichang county.
More than 4,000 rescue workers with 180 diggers were scrambling to find survivors but persistent rain and poor road conditions had hindered rescue efforts, the agency reported.
Video footage of the landslide on social media showed torrents of water and rock pouring down a mountain towards houses in the valley below while terrified onlookers screamed.
Typhoon Megi had already claimed one life on Wednesday morning, when a flash flood tore through the home of a villager in the coastal province of Fujian, according to reports.
At least 2.09 million people from three provinces have been affected by the typhoon, which has destroyed roughly 1,200 houses, the People's Daily reported Saturday.
The storm is estimated to have caused China 5.53 billion yuan ($835 million) in damages.
The typhoon smashed into Taiwan earlier in the week, leaving a trail of destruction and killing seven as it raked across the island.
It also caused an estimated Tw$1.31 billion ($42 million) in agricultural damage and left more than four million households without power.
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