HOHHOT May 12 (Xinhuanet) -- A man in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region killed his wife last month after she caught him robbing the bank where she worked as a clerk, according to police sources.

    Wang Yuling, the murderer, has been arrested and is being questioned, police officers said.

    According to the police, Wang was manager of an agricultural cultivation company of Hailar city, in Hulun Buir League of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He decided to rob a bank becausehe was in an urgent shortage of 180,000 yuan (22,000 US dollars) to pay for chemical fertilizer his company needed.

    On April 8, with a hammer and gloves he prepared for the robbery, Wang went at 1 p.m. to the agricultural credit cooperative bank where his wife, surnamed Su, was working.

    Because he was known to bank staff, Wang managed to get into the bank's working area. He sent his wife out by asking her to buymineral water. After the wife left, Wang attacked the lone unsuspecting clerk surnamed Ren, using his hammer to hit the clerk's head.

    Wang's assault was seen by the returning wife. Crazy, Wang turned to attack his wife by hammering her head and she died immediately at the scene, according to the police.

    Wang robbed 285,000 yuan (34,000 US dollars) in cash from the safe and fled. The police were notified of the murder at 3:20 p.m.and a manhunt led to his arrest at 5 p.m.

    The robbed money was all reclaimed, according to the police, and the injured clerk Ren survived the assault and was sent to thelocal hospital. Enditem