Detention of 3 Teens Over Gruesome Killing of 13-Year-Old Classmate Sparks Debate in China

BEIJING — In the last recorded moments before the 13-year-old boy’s death, surveillance cameras showed him sitting on a scooter, surrounded by three classmates. An hour later, his phone went dead, kicking off a frantic search by relatives. The following day, police in a village in northern China’s Hebei province made a sickening discovery: the boy’s body, buried underneath a tarp in an abandoned vegetable greenhouse. His three teenage classmates have been detained on suspicion of murdering the boy in a case that has riveted China, setting off outrage and frenzied debate over the young age of the suspects and soul-searching about bullying and social responsibility in the Chinese countryside....