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SCMP Reporter

Police have detained two brothers who they say  killed 12 people, including 11 women who were robbed and dismembered, as they ran amok for 15 months across six provinces.

Shen Changyin, 29, and Shen Changping, 21, were allegedly dismembering a woman when a policewoman posing as a property manager broke into their flat  in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, on Tuesday in response to a tip-off.

The pair were arrested with  female accomplice Du Surong, who was used as  bait to lure the victim.

Shijiazhuang police  told the Yanzhao Metropolis Daily the three had been detained but charges had yet to be brought.

The report said the older brother claimed in September 1999 that he killed a man  who had raped the sister of a friend.

The brothers fled and allegedly killed 11 women who worked in nightclubs and bathhouses in six provinces in the past 15 months.

After  arranging sexual services, the pair lured the women to their homes, robbing them of 120,000 yuan in the process, the report said.

They made bathhouse women  their accomplices.

In Taiyuan, Shanxi province, an accomplice  reported them to police  and they fled to Hefei  in Anhui province, where they allegedly killed three more victims, and later to Lanzhou  where they linked up with Du, the report said.

In February, Yang Xinhai,  36, was executed for murdering 67 people and raping 23 women in Anhui, Henan , Hebei and Shandong  between 2000 and last year.



Brothers killed 12 people in six provinces: police