Police in the northern province of Yen Bai have proposed that the local People’s Procuracy prosecute a man for murdering four people last month and demand the death penalty for him. The provincial police on Monday said they had completed their investigation into the case in which Dang Van Hung, 26, killed four members in a family in Van Yen District on August 12.

Hung should be prosecuted for that murder and sentenced to death, pursuant to Article 93 of the Penal Code, police said in their conclusion. Hung, along with 36-year-old Nguyen Thi Han, who was his family’s maid, was arrested on August 15 in Luc Yen District, a few kilometers away from where he killed the victims. Investigation showed that Hung forced Han to go with him after he killed Tran Van Long, 32, his 20-year-old wife Phan Thi Hoa, two-year-old son Tran Van Tuyen, and sister-in-law, 15-year-old Phan Thi Ha. At 4:00 pm on August 12, Hung went to his mountainous field in Van Yen, bringing along with him a machete and a bush hook. On his way Hung met Long and Hoa in an area about 300 meters from his field and asked them why they were working in his family’s field. After Long replied that he was working in the area that his parents-in-law had given him, Hung kicked him in his face, causing him to fall to the ground.    Long then asked his wife to phone his father-in-law and she followed suit. Hung requested her to hand her cellphone to him but Hoa turned him down. Long ran away but Hung chased him and slashed him to death. Hung then returned and killed Hoa and the two other victims.  He moved on to rush to the tent in his family’s mountainous field, where he informed his father of the killings and took away two guns before fleeing. On the way out of the field, he met Han and forced her to go along with him. Hung threw his knives and guns during the escape, and they were arrested on August 15 morning in Khanh Hoa Commune in Luc Yen. Police released Han a day later after investigation showed that she was not involved in the murder and did not know about it, Colonel Pham Ngoc Thang, deputy director of the provincial Police Department, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper. Han only knew about the killings when Hung revealed them to her, Col. Thang said.

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