A most depressing lede

The first few lines of a Xinhua article published by The China Daily last night:

Chinese police have arrested nine people suspected of trafficking mentally disabled people from Leibo County in southwest China’ Sichuan Province to other areas and then murdering them in coal mines to blackmail the mine owners, police said Wednesday.

The China Daily gave the article an almost cryptic headline that attempts to summarize the whole sordid affair: Police probing colliery kidnap-kill-then-blackmail.

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