China policeman acts as couple’s dead son for a decade to comfort ailing mother


A lookalike police officer in China has been praised for standing in as a couple’s son after theirs died in an accident a decade ago. - Photo: SCMP composite/Chinanews

BEIJING (SCMP): A police officer in eastern China has acted as a couple’s late son for 11 years, offering comfort to the paralysed mother and forming a deep bond beyond blood.

In 2003, Xia Zhanhai and his wife Liang Qiaoying, who live in Shanxi province in northern China, lost their son in a gas leak accident.

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