BEIJING: A Chinese town has been sealed off and 151 people placed in quarantine since last week after a man died of bubonic plague, state media said yesterday.
The 30,000 people living in Yumen in the northwestern province of Gansu are not being allowed to leave, and police at roadblocks on its perimeter are telling motorists to find alternative routes, state broadcaster China Central Television said.
Other reports said that earlier this month the 38-year-old victim had found a dead marmot, a small furry animal related to the squirrel. He chopped it up to feed his dog but developed a fever the same day. He was taken to hospital after his condition worsened and died last Wednesday.
Three jailed over drug scam
DHAKA: A court yesterday sentenced three Bangladeshis to jail for making and selling a toxic paracetamol syrup that doctors say killed hundreds of children in the 1990s, a prosecutor said.
Judge Abdur Rashid sentenced them to the maximum penalty of 10 years’ jail. The three were employees of a local drug company accused of replacing one of the syrup’s ingredients with a cheaper alternative normally used in the leather dyeing industry.
Helena Pasha, the owner of drug maker Adflame Pharmaceutical Limited, and Mizanur Rahman, the manager, were found guilty of drug adulteration. They were taken into custody after the verdicts.
The court also convicted in absentia Nigendra Nath Bala, an employee in charge of production, who is on the run.
China behind fake Twitter accounts
BEIJING: Beijing has created at least 100 fake Twitter accounts to spread propaganda about Tibet and other Chinese concerns, a campaign group has said.
The social networking site is blocked within China, but Free Tibet said it had identified around 100 accounts as “undoubtedly fake”, adding there could be “hundreds more”. They are dedicated to circulating China’s message on Tibet and other issues such as the restive region of Xinjiang, home to largely Muslim Uighurs, the London-based group said in a statement.
AFP
