Beijing, November 29: Police in southern China have captured a man suspected of hacking to death his parents, wife, sons and sister in Beijing, media reported Sunday.
Li Lei confessed to fleeing China’s capital on Monday after murdering his family members, the state-run Beijing Youth Daily reported, quoting the police.
Li was captured on Saturday in Sanya, a resort city in the southern tropical island of Hainan, Beijing police said, according to the report.
The newspaper did not give any more details, and police in Beijing were unavailable for comment.
The news comes after several other grisly murders in China.
Police in the south are searching for one man suspected of murdering his parents and four other relatives after escaping from a mental hospital, and another believed to have killed five of his girlfriend’s relatives.
—Agencies