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| Six 'cult' members arrested in China over McDonald's woman beaten to death | |
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| Six people who are believed to be members of a religious cult have been arrested over the beating to death of a woman at a McDonald's restaurant in eastern China, police said Saturday. | Six people who are believed to be members of a religious cult have been arrested over the beating to death of a woman at a McDonald's restaurant in eastern China, police said Saturday. |
| Four of the six are members of the same family and allegedly attacked the woman because she refused to give them her phone number, Zhaoyuan police said on their microblog. | Four of the six are members of the same family and allegedly attacked the woman because she refused to give them her phone number, Zhaoyuan police said on their microblog. |
| Authorities said the group belong to an organisation that called itself the “All-Powerful Spirit” and has been conducting a drive for new members. They were looking to recruit the unidentified woman, according to the official Xinhua news agency. | |
| All-powerful spirit, or “Quannengshen”, was founded in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang in the early 1990s and later spread to the country’s eastern provinces, the newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily reports. | |
| The newspaper said the group promoted a philosophy based on a distorted reading of the Christian Bible and had been banned as an "evil cult" by the government in 1995. This claim has not been verified. | The newspaper said the group promoted a philosophy based on a distorted reading of the Christian Bible and had been banned as an "evil cult" by the government in 1995. This claim has not been verified. |
| The suspects include a man, his two daughters and a son, as well as two women, Xinhau reports. All have been detained apart from the son, who is under the age of legal responsibility in China. | The suspects include a man, his two daughters and a son, as well as two women, Xinhau reports. All have been detained apart from the son, who is under the age of legal responsibility in China. |
| The Beijing Morning News said 17 of its members had been arrested in Beijing in December 2012 for harassing people in a public park and claiming the world was coming to an end. | The Beijing Morning News said 17 of its members had been arrested in Beijing in December 2012 for harassing people in a public park and claiming the world was coming to an end. |
| State broadcaster CCTV said religious material had been found at a location linked to the group but gave no further details. A clerk who answered the phone at Zhaoyuan police headquarters told the Associated Press no-one was available to comment. | State broadcaster CCTV said religious material had been found at a location linked to the group but gave no further details. A clerk who answered the phone at Zhaoyuan police headquarters told the Associated Press no-one was available to comment. |