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Family of Murdered Chinese Student Go to Germany

Hu Peng, a 27-year-old from Xi'an in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province and studying at Kiel University, was killed after a quarrell with a 35-year-old German colleague on Tuesday evening of last week.

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The relatives of a murdered Chinese student were due to arrive in Germany yesterday afternoon local time for a last look at their loved one.

Hu Peng, a 27-year-old from Xi'an in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, studied at Kiel University.

He was spending his summer holiday working in a factory in Markgroningen near Stuttgart, making carpets for car interiors. He quarrelled with a 35-year-old German colleague on Tuesday evening of last week before a fight broke out. There were no eyewitnesses.

A Bonn-based Chinese diplomat who spoke on terms of anonymity said Wednesday by telephone that a suspect has already been arrested and that local prosecutors have started an investigation.

A statement on the website of the Chinese Embassy in Berlin called the murder "a serious incident."

The embassy urged the German police to provide a detailed report on the case soon and to punish the murderer according to the law.

Embassy officials also asked the local police to keep Hu's remains until his relatives arrived in Germany.

The source in Bonn said that Hu's parents, his wife and two uncles were due to be escorted to accommodation prepared by the local Chinese students' organization.

The detailed schedule of their stay in Germany and the funeral arrangements will be discussed and decided on after their arrival, according to the diplomat.

However, embassy officials stressed that the case is an individual one and does not necessarily indicate that Chinese students as a whole are in danger from racially motivated violence.

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