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Officials detained six people involved in a blood-selling scheme in southern China, cracking down on the illegal practice that helped spread AIDS in the country, news reports said Friday.
More than 100 police officers took part in a raid in Jieyang City in southern Guangdong province Wednesday evening, detaining the blood-selling scheme's leader and five sellers, said an official Xinhua News Agency report posted on the Jieyang government's Web site.
The report said Guangdong's vice health minister, Liao Xinbo, led a team to Jieyang to investigate the incident.
Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po newspaper said that the Jieyang government ordered officials to donate blood to avoid depleting the city's blood supply after the raid.