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JINAN, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Four key suspects have been arrested in connection with a telecom fraud case in east China's Shandong Province, believed to have led to the death of a teenager, local police said Friday.
Law enforcers were sent to at least five provinces in southern and eastern China to search for the suspects, four of whom have been detained as of late Friday night, according to the official microblog of the provincial police office.
The suspects are all male aged from 19 to 35, three of whom are from Fujian Province and the other from Chongqing Municipality.
The case came to public attention following widespread media reports of the death of Xu Yuyu, an 18-year-old high school graduate in Linyi City.
Xu was reported to have lost 9,900 yuan (1,490 U.S. dollars) of her university tuition fees to telecom fraudsters and, according to reports, died of a cardiac arrest on Aug. 19.
Just a few miles away, another student, Song Zhenning, was also reported to have died in the same way, having lost money in another fraud case.
A third similar incident has also been reported in the city.
The country's Ministry of Public Security issued a top-level order for arrests Friday. The manhunt continues.
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