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| Two residents showing the location of the basement |
Police have detained a man who held six women as sex slaves in a basement in China.
Li Hao, 34, is also accused of killing two of his victims and burying them in the room as a scare tactic.
He was nabbed on Sept 6, after one of his captives escaped and led police to the underground prison, Southern Metropolis Daily reported.
An official of Luoyang police bureau in Henan province said the suspect was undergoing tests to gauge his mental state.
Li Hao, a former civil servant with the city's technological supervision bureau, told police he purchased the basement - in an old residential community - four years ago.
He then spent over a year digging two small rooms - four metres beneath the basement.
Once finished, Li Hao kidnapped six women and locked them in the rooms.
He regularly raped them for the past two years, said police.
To prevent his victims from escaping, Li fed the women only once every two days, keeping them physically weak.
The only time any of them was allowed to leave the basement was when he needed money. He would force one of the women to have sex with other men for money and pocket the cash.
It was during one of these excursions that one victim - a 23-year-old woman - escaped and guided police to the basement, where they discovered three other women.
Police also found a shallow grave containing two bodies in one corner of the room.
The rooms had a computer, where the women could watch videos and play games, but without Internet access.
The suspect's wife, whom he had a son with, said she did not know about the basement.
She said Li had told her he had a part-time job as a gatekeeper, which gave him an excuse to go out at night.
