‘Mum won’t see you’: China cancer woman dies without finding abducted son after 9-year search
Child taken in 2015 while out playing, parents set up Douyin account to help them embark on nationwide search
A 41-year-old Chinese woman who died without finding her abducted son has generated an outpouring of sympathy on mainland social media.
Li Xuemei, from southern China’s Guangdong province, died of lung cancer on August 19 without fulfilling her last wish to see her boy again.
A month before she died, Li posted a video on the Douyin account she had set up to search for him called “Looking for Liu Jiazhu”.
She announced then that the cancer had advanced, and spread to her bones.
“Jiazhu, mum won’t see you again. I’m sorry,” she wrote.
The boy was abducted at the age of five with his friend while playing in a field near his countryside home, one day before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2015.
