Murder suspect arrested in northern China

CHANGCHUN, May 11 (Xinhua) -- A man suspected in the May 5 stabbing of four
people in northeastern province of Jilin had been arrested, local police
confirmed on Monday.

Zhang Guoquan, a 36-year-old farmer at Xinglong Village of Tongyu County,
was arrested for allegedly stabbing four people to death. The victims were
Zhang's neighbors, with whom he had quarreled over a farm dispute. The victims
were Jiang Xingguo, 66,his wife, daughter-in-law and his five-year-old grandson,
according to the local police.

Only Jiang's son, who was absent at the time, escaped the murder.

The suspect fled the scene with Jiang's motorcycle after the homicide.

Local police arrested the suspect five days later in a county in northern
China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which is 2,000 kilometers from the
crime scene.