Man wanted for shooting dead one policeman in NW China city

• Source: Xinhua
• [10:11 March 10 2010]
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Lanzhou police in northwest China's Gansu Province on Wednesday offered a reward of 100,000 yuan ($14,600 ) for a man who shot dead a policeman.

The suspect has been identified as Fu Xiaolin, a vegetable wholesaler from the outskirts of Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province. He sold vegetable at a wholesale market in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu.

Police said Fu fired at the policeman Dou Yong with a handgun and fled.

Dou was among a group of policeman sent to investigate Fu at 8:20 a.m. Tuesday, after Fu's wife came to the police station in Weiyuan Street, Lanzhou City, to report she was threatened by Fu with a handgun, because the husband suspected she was having an affair.

Lanzhou police have tightened security at checkpoints on all major roads out of the city.