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Fatal crash

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-12

A HIGH-RANKING official with Baoshan District Major Construction Office was killed last night in a car accident in Yangpu District. The official, surnamed Zhang, 41, lost the control of her car and hit a roadside...

A noisy quarrel, then two are dead, infant orphaned

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-12

A MAN committed suicide by jumping from his apartment building in the city's Yangpu District yesterday morning, and soon afterward his wife's corpse was found in their apartment. Their 20-month-old son was left...

Police probe teacher's loans from parents

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-2

YANGPU District police are investigating an English teacher who borrowed more than 140,000 yuan (US$20,500) from parents of her primary school students without repaying the debt. The teacher surnamed Xu, a 35-year-old...

5-year-old girl killed, mom hurt when bus hits motorbike

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-10-30

A FIVE-year-old girl was killed and her mother injured in a bus accident in Yangpu District yesterday morning. Witnesses said a No. 406 bus turned toward a station on Xiangyin Road - on which bikes or mopeds are...

Driver killed, pedestrian 'critical'

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-10-16

A DRIVER was killed instantly in Yangpu District yesterday after hitting two vehicles and a pedestrian. The pedestrian, a woman, 27, from Vietnam, suffered severe injuries and was comatose and in critical condition...

2 held after lethal stabbing in street

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-9-24

SHANGHAI'S Yangpu District police detained two suspects yesterday for allegedly stabbing a man to death on a street. The victim, aged 60 and surnamed Gao, was suffering shocking knife wounds when police arrived...

Burglaries spark police warning on locks

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-9-23

RESIDENTS in some districts of Shanghai were yesterday warned by police to make sure they double-lock doors when leaving home to ensure secondary deadbolts slip into place. Yangpu District police issued an alert...

Hit-and-run motorist secures compensation

Metro | Courts
2009-9-8

AN insurance company should pay 42,696 yuan (US$6,252) in compensation to a driver though he fled the scene after a traffic accident, Yangpu District People's Court ruled yesterday. On October 20, 2007, the driver,...

Woman must pay ex-husband's debt

Metro | Courts
2009-9-4

DIVORCEE Zhang Jing must pay back half of the 1.07 million yuan (US$156,000) debt owed by her ex-husband while they were married, the Yangpu District People's Court ordered. More unfortunately, she found she was...

Knife in man's head

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-8-28

A MAN was in hospital yesterday with a wound to his head after his roommate was playing with a knife and dropped it on him in Yangpu District. The knife was lodged 1.5 centimeters into the man's head when taken...