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Six-year-old Guo Bin was lured by a woman into a fieldon 24 August where she used an unspecified tool to gouge out his eyes.
The attack horrified the Chinese public and added to outrage over violence against children as a circulated footage shows the boy writhing in pain on a hospital trolley with bandages around his head and his parents, both farmers, crying.
Six days later Zhang Huiying killed herself by jumping into a well. Although media reports had cited relatives as saying they did not think she was responsible for the attack, the police had a different opinion.
The Police in northern China suspects that Huiying was Bin’s aunt and had removed the boy’s eyes.
The official Xinhua news agency cited police in the city of Linfen, Shanxi province, as saying the aunt was identified as a suspect after the boy's blood was found on her clothes.
No motive has been cited. State media previously had raised the possibility that the boy's corneas were taken for sale because of a donor shortage in China. However police said the boy's eyeballs were found at the scene and the corneas had not been removed.
Media reports cited police as saying the aunt had argued with the boy's parents over how much money each family should contribute to the care of his grandfather, who was paralysed.
