Women held for two years as sex slaves in basement

A CHINESE man has been accused of keeping six women captive in secret underground rooms as sex slaves for two years, and murdering two of them.

Li Hao allegedly kidnapped women who worked as hostesses at karaoke bars and locked them in two small rooms he had dug beneath a rented basement in Luoyang, Henan province.

The secret rooms were located in a residential complex away from his home, where his wife and son lived unaware of the alleged kidnappings, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported, citing unnamed police sources.

A publicity official for the city’s police department confirmed a man named Li Hao who works for the city’s technological supervision bureau had been taken into custody.

The official, who would confirm the suspect’s surname was Li, declined to provide further details, citing an ongoing investigation.

The newspaper reported Li was a former firefighter and claimed he regularly raped the women and would give them food only once every two days to keep them weak. It described the rooms the women ate and slept in as dank and smelly.

Over time, some of the captives started competing with one another for his attention, the report said, and two of them ended up fighting. Li allegedly killed one of them with the help of another woman.

He also allegedly killed one of the other women who was said to have been “disobedient,” the report said, adding he allegedly buried both bodies in the corner of one of the rooms.

Li only let some of the women out when he wanted them to perform sexual services for other men to earn money for him, the newspaper said. It was on one of these outings that one of the women escaped and went to the police for help.