Chinese student prosecuted for killing girlfriend in US

A Chinese student who killed his girlfriend in the US and fled to his home country is due to be prosecuted by Chinese courts.
Li Xiangnan has been charged with the killing of his girlfriend Shao Tong in the US, the Wenzhou City People's Procuratorate said.
Li, 24, a native of east China's Zhejiang Province, is accused of strangling his girlfriend in a motel room in Iowa state on September 7, 2014 and fleeing to China the next day.
A missing person's report on Shao was received by Iowa Police on September 17. Her body was found stuffed into the truck of a car on September 26.

China's Ministry of Public Security dispatched an investigation team to the US in June to collect evidence.
Chinese police arrested Li for intentional murder on June 19 and transferred him to the procuratorate on November.
"Li deliberately killed his girlfriend out of affective problems in the relationship. The facts were ascertained and evidence sufficient, and the defendant shall be prosecuted for intentional homicide," the procuratorate said in a statement.
According to Chinese criminal law, punishments for intentional homicide range from the death penalty to imprisonment for 10 years, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.