Seven drug traffickers executed

Seven people convicted of drug trafficking in China were executed and six others were sentenced to death ahead of International Anti-Drugs Day, state media reported.

Officials in Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, also set fire to illegal drugs worth €14.9m.

Four men were executed in Guangzhou, the capital of southern Guangdong province, after being sentenced to death at rallies in four Guangdong cities. Three others were executed in Wuhan, a city in central Hubei province, for trafficking in heroin and opium

In Wenzhou, on the southeast coast, a court sentenced to death four people convicted of involvement in a heroin trafficking ring in the southwestern province of Yunnan, the state-run newspaper Beijing Evening News reported.

Yunnan borders the heroin-producing “Golden Triangle,” which includes parts of Burma, Laos and northern Thailand.

A court in Shenzhen sentenced at least two convicted drug traffickers to death, including a “big Hong Kong drug lord” identified as Li Qingyuan, the newspaper said.

Similar rallies and executions were reportedly held in other Chinese cities, including Xi’an and Hangzhou.