2 Held in Train Slaying of American in China
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BEIJING — Railway police said Friday they arrested two Chinese men in the fatal stabbing of an American aboard a train in northern Henan province.
The victim, a Chinese-American identified as Qie Jihua, 61, was stabbed to death about 3 a.m. Sunday on a train from Beijing to Canton, said a spokesman at the Zhengzhou Station Police Office.
Qie’s body was discovered after the train pulled into the station at Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province.
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