Chinese migrant worker returns home to find her husband has ‘killed’ her
Woman goes back to Sichuan city for first time in years to discover cancelled household registration, a death certificate – and her former spouse remarried
A migrant worker found she had been declared “dead” by her husband, who wanted to marry another woman, when she returned to their home in southwest China after years away.
When Liu Guoqing went back to Dazhou city in Sichuan province on May 18 for the first time in years she discovered her household registration document, or hukou, had been cancelled, Chengdu Business Daily reported on Wednesday.
Worse, the local police station had issued a death certificate for her in February 2017, declaring she had died from illness in 2015, the report said.
Liu told the newspaper she had been in contact with her family throughout her time away, working in the city of Changsha in central Hunan province. She suspected her husband had arranged the fake death certificate because he wanted to remarry.
The couple had been married since 1995 and had two sons together, but had lived apart without contact since 2006, the report said.