mainland Red China has sentenced to death four robber who used explosive and heavy machinery to prize tomb almost 2,500 years old
The state-run Xinhua word agency says the 4 sentenced Friday were part of a 27-member gang who robbed a XII tomb near the working capital of the central state of Hunan province in 2008 and 2009.
The study says some of the more than 200 stolen artefact were under mainland China’s highest level of protection One of the tomb date from the Warring States period that began in 475 B.C.
An research worker told Xinhua all the relic were recovered.
The intermediate peoples Court in Changsha handed down the death sentences. The other robber got prison terms
China executes more people than any other country in the world
Source: Associated Press, May 14, 2010