Around Shanghai: More Metro lines, dismemberment, and blackmail

By Benjamin Cohen

• Construction on Metro Line 12 is set to begin this year. (see map)
• Police have detained a woman who allegedly dismembered her husband's body with axes and knives, then scattered the body parts around Pudong and Jiangsu Province.
• Luggage Security checkpoints have been added to Metro stations so police may search bags to prevent the entry of hazardous materials.
• Two university graduates secretly filmed people having sex and then blackmailed them were sentenced to prison.
• Pudong will add more non-stop flight destinations. In May, Aero Mexico will offer direct flights to Tijuana and Mexico City. Gulf Air will begin non-stop service to Bahrain in June.

Photo by Yansi