Men stole bride’s corpse to sell in ‘ghost wedding’

Three people in northern China have been detained on suspicion of stealing a corpse to sell as a bride in the ancient Chinese rite of ghost weddings.

The main suspect, a man aged 72, said he had heard about the death of a young woman in a nearby village in Shanxi province and thought of selling the corpse to relatives of single dead men.

The practice joins single people who have died for a belated marriage in the afterlife.