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Comment (BEIJING -- Shanghai police are refusing to give any details of the death of Diana Gabrielle O'Brien, except to say that they are investigating.
With its showcase Olympics beginning in less than a month, the last thing China wants is a high-profile killing of a foreigner in China's biggest city. But that's what happened this week in Shanghai, and it might explain why the authorities are reluctant to discuss the case.
Officials at the Shanghai branch of the Public Security Ministry, the agency in charge of the police, declined to make any comment yesterday on the death.
At a local police station in the city's Changning district, not far from the last published address of the modelling agency that recruited Ms. O'Brien, a police officer issued a brief statement to CTV News yesterday after making many calls to her superior officers. "The police will do everything possible to investigate and resolve this case," the statement said. "When the investigation rea...
