Two officials sacked in China for misconduct

Two police officials have been sacked on charge of "severe malfeasance" after riots broke out over the mysterious death of a teenage girl in southwest China last week, state media reported. The chief of the Public Security Bureau of Weng - a County in Guizhou province - and the bureau commisar were replaced, official Xinhua news agency said quoting local sources, as the action came days after the violent protest involving nearly 30,000 people on Saturday. The Standing Committee of the County's People's Congress which took the decision also stripped the previous bureau commisar of all the three Communist Party of China posts he had held, it said. Wang Fuyu, provincial deputy CPC chief who is also heading an investigation into the incident, said the protest would not have happened if local officials had communicated... [read full story]                    

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