Death toll not up in Hungry Ghost month


ACCORDING to Chinese folk tales, the gates of hell open annually during the Hungry Ghost month, which causes more deaths in this period, but Singapore statistics show a different story, China Press reported.

The daily reported that the seventh month of the lunar calendar, which usually falls in July and August, did not show a rise in the death toll.

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