The police of south China's Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, announced Tuesday that they nabbed all four people who had robbed and murdered five other dwellers living inside a residential quarter of the city's Futian District.

The four suspects were hunted down early Monday in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, Dongguan City of Guangdong Province, and in Yichang City of central China's Hubei Province, according to the police sources.

Leader of the robbery clique surnamed Luo said during interrogation that he plotted to rob Zhou Yinan, a Hong Kong resident who had bought a home at the residential quarter known as"Trust Garden", in early May.

On the afternoon of May 26, Luo and his accomplices eventually entered Zhou's apartment after cheating Zhou's domestic helper to open the door for them under an excuse of ferrying bottled water.

All the victims, who returned to the apartment later that afternoon, including Zhou, three females and another unidentified man, were murdered by the clique who went away with the victims' possessions, including credit cards and cash.

The four robbers went into hiding after they had bought some jewelry with the cash and credit cards they had robbed, and drawn another 50,000 yuan (US$6,024) from the bank.

The robbery and murder were found and reported to police by one of Zhou's subordinates last Saturday night.

The case is still under further investigations, said the police.

(Xinhua News Agency June 1, 2004)