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Chinese hitmen jailed over repeatedly outsourced murder

The hapless assassins kept passing on the contract, each time taking a cut of the cash, in the hope that someone lower down the chain would actually carry out the killing. [AFP]

A string of hitmen who repeatedly subcontracted a murder to each other -- then failed to go through with the job -- have been jailed in China.

The hapless assassins kept passing on the contract -- each time taking a cut of the cash -- in the hope that someone lower down the chain would actually carry out the killing.

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