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Young Woman Dug Up For Ghost Wedding

Submitted by C. S. Magor on Tuesday, 16 June 2009One Comment | Google Buzz |

corpsebrideFive people have been arrested in Xianyang, China for digging up the body of a young woman to use in a ghost wedding for a young man who died in a car crash.

The boy’s father is listed amongst four other suspects, whom he is alleged to have paid close to $4500 to find his son a wife for the afterlife.

The practice is seeing a strong resurgence in rural China to the point that a criminal gang resorted to murdering young women in Southern China to make up for a shortage of corpses that had died of natural causes.

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