Briefs | Chinese national slightly injured in Paris attacks: embassy

A Chinese national was slightly injured in the Paris attacks Friday night, the Chinese Embassy in France confirmed yesterday to Xinhua. After verification with the French authorities, “we confirmed there is a Chinese national slightly injured (during Paris attacks),” it said in a statement. Chinese Embassy staff also visited the young woman at hospital and reported that she was already in recovery after receiving treatment. The embassy won’t disclose other details in accordance with her wishes. French authorities on Saturday night put the provisional death toll of the attacks at 129. A total of 352 others were injured, with at least 99 of them in very critical situations.

21 bodies found after landslide hits Zhejiang village

The death toll from a landslide that buried homes in eastern China has risen to 21 people with 16 others still missing, a local government said yesterday. A torrent of mud and rocks unleashed by heavy rains buried nearly 30 homes in a village in Zhejiang province on Friday night. Four people were confirmed dead soon after the landslide. The Lishui city government, which administers Lidong village, where the landslide happened, said that 21 bodies had been found as well as one survivor, who was in stable condition.

2 inmates get death for killing guard in jailbreak

Two Chinese prisoners were sentenced to death on Friday, and another to life in jail for killing a guard and then fleeing from a prison in police uniform last year, a court official said. Gao Yulun, Wang Damin and Li Haiwei were convicted on charges of murder and breaking out of jail in Yanshou county in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, said Suo Hang, a press officer for the Intermediate Court in the provincial capital of Harbin. Gao was already on death row when he fled the jail in September 2014, while Wang and Li were awaiting verdicts on assault charges. Gao and Wang were sentenced to death for the murder and rare jailbreak, which made national headlines in China when police launched a massive manhunt for the trio. Gao had been on the run for 10 days when police caught him at a relative’s home, where he sought food, according to media reports.