‘Mum won’t see you’: China cancer woman dies without finding abducted son after nine-year search


A cancer-suffering mother in China has died without finding her missing son after a near decade-long search following his abduction at the age of five. - Photo: SCMP composite/chinapress.com/mp.oeeee.com

BEIJING: A 41-year-old Chinese woman who died without finding her abducted son has generated an outpouring of sympathy on mainland social media.

Li Xuemei, from southern China’s Guangdong province, died of lung cancer on Aug 19 without fulfilling her last wish to see her boy again.

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