‘THIEVES STOLE MY BLOOD’

PHNOM PENH: A Chinese man has claimed he was kidnapped by Cambodian gangsters who drew his blood to sell on the black market.

The man, surnamed Li, was kidnapped in the Chongzuo region of southwest China in June last year after responding to a false job advertisement for a security guard. He was then smuggled into Cambodia, beaten and tasered, before being detained. The gang drained 350ml of his blood each time on seven occasions, Beijing Youth Daily reported.

“I was told my blood type was highly valuable there,” Li told the newspaper. He escaped this month. “I was dying,” he said. “My body couldn’t move. I couldn’t finish a sentence.”

He said his captors had ignored health advice that blood donors wait two or three months between sessions, and his legs began to swell as a result.