A Chinese doctor has admitted in court
that she persuaded parents to give up their newborn babies so that she could sell them to human traffickers.
The official Xinhua News Agency said obstetrician Zhang Shuxia stood trial on Monday in northern Shaanxi province's Fuping county in a case that exposed the operations of a baby trafficking ring
that operated across several provinces.
Xinhua says Zhang sold seven babies between late 2011 and July 2013 to human traffickers after getting their parents to give them up by telling
them the babies were incurably sick. One of the babies died.
Child trafficking is a serious problem in China, where traditional preference for male heirs and a strict one-child policy has driven a thriving market in baby boys.
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A well-known television cameraman has died after being hit by a train while filming in Soweto, the SABC reported on Tuesday.
Dudley Saunders was a veteran SABC cameraman and also worked with the SABC's Special Assignment and M-Net's Carte Blanche programmes.
He was filming for the BBC at the time of his death.
According to the SABC, Saunders made headlines in 2011 after he was stoned by supporters of Julius
Malema during a protest outside the ANC's Luthuli House headquarters.
Saunders was the son of veteran newsman Cliff Saunders, who was a political correspondent at the SABC until the late 1980s
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