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Article: Xi'an Police Hold Relics-Selling Suspects
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- March 20, 1996
CopyrightCopyright 1996 Xinhua English Newswire. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Police in China have detained two people accused of concealing and
intending to sell three 1,300-year-old Buddha statues.
Villager Zha Chengwa and bulldozer driver Sun Baojiang unearthed
the white marble statues in winter of 1992 when they were digging a
fish pond near Xizha Village in suburban Xi'an, capital of northwest
China's Shaanxi Province.
Instead of reporting the finds to the government, they hid the
relics and tried to sell them at price of four million yuan (about
480,000 US dollars).
Police in Xi'an seized the statues in Zha's and Sun's homes last
December and last week they captured the fleeing suspects.
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