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Chinese Student Found Dead in Toronto

According to police verification, a man's corpse was found in a car's trunk in Toronto city and the man is possibly overseas Chinese student Tang Wenfeng, who was missing five day ago.

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According to police verification, a man's corpse was found in a car's trunk in Toronto city and the man is possibly overseas Chinese student Tang Wenfeng, who was missing five day ago.

Local reports said a patrol policeman found a stolen car on August 23 and then discovered a man's corpse in the car's trunk.

According to postmortem examination, the death was caused by something hard on the head and the car belongs to Tang.

The case indicates that when the 25-year-old Tang and his friend were in a shopping center in the city at 4 pm on August 19, three Asians and one African-Canadian abruptly seized them. Both Tang and his friend got beaten, their money and clothes looted, fortunately, the latter was released finally.

After the case was exposed, Zhou Limin of the Chinese Consulate in Toronto expressed concern over the matter, but said that no further information about the case is available because of weekend and the Consulate will continue to pay close attention to the matter.

Bill Sornberger, detective sergeant in Toronto, said they are using all resources available, including the homicide squad.

Chinese consulate officials warned students and Chinese parents to take precautions when sending their children abroad to study.

They added that it is important that Chinese students studying abroad be mature enough to handle the difficulties of adjusting to a new culture.

"Some young overseas Chinese students have difficulty adapting to life abroad because the language barrier and unfamiliarity with local laws and regulations," said a consulate official who would not give his name.

He added he hopes cases like this draw greater attention to the importance of safeguarding the lives and well-being of Chinese students.

In February, the case of Tao Lin, a 19-year-old student from Wuhan in Central China's Hubei Province, who was studying at York University also in Toronto, also ignited widespread concern in Canada and in China.

Tao was murdered after she was attacked in a parking lot by a stranger who stabbed her and slit her throat. The case is still under investigation.

Yan Xiaosheng, manager of a Beijing-based construction company, whose son is studying in London, said that as a parent he was thankful that his child has the opportunity to study overseas. "But I am also more concerned about his safety, and I know that the parents of those hundreds of thousands of students studying abroad are concerned as well," he said.

Statistics show that the number of Chinese teenager students studying abroad grew at an annual rate of 40 per cent in the last three years. The number is expected to reach 50,000 this year and exceed 100,000 by 2005.

By PD Online Staff Li Yan

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