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.
(People's Daily August 27, 2002)
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