Kidnapped man has blood drained and sold by captors

A man has been rescued after he was allegedly kidnapped, and his blood was drained and sold by his abductors.

He had so much blood taken from him over a six-month period that his whole body became swollen.

The man, named by the pseudonym Li Yaming, aged 31, left Beijing in May last year to work at a nightclub as a security guard in Guanxi, in China’s south, the Beijing Youth Daily reports.

He had an interview about the position and was then taken to Pinxiang where he claims two Chinese men in camouflage drugged and kidnapped him. He then said he was taken to Cambodia and sold to another group for more than $25,000.

Mr Li said he was held captive in Cambodia for six months where his blood was drained as a “human blood bag”. He told the South China Morning Post his captors originally wanted to ransom him but decided to take his blood on realising he is an orphan.

He was threatened with having his organs sold if he did not cooperate. Mr Li was also allegedly prodded with electric shocks.

Two bottles of blood, each about 350ml, were drained from him every one and a half months or so. His blood had appeal on the black market as it was the universal O blood type.

According to the Red Cross, a safe donation amount is about 470ml which is about eight per cent of a regular person’s blood volume. Whole blood donations are only done every 12 weeks.

Swelling gradually emerges

The 31-year-old said his blood was drained seven times. Mr Li said this was done in a remodelled conference room which was divided into seven or more dark rooms. At night, he was sent into a dormitory.

“After about five or six blood draws, I felt that I was getting worse every day, and the swelling gradually emerged,” he said.

“It started with two legs, then to the scrotum, then to the upper body, then to the face and neck, and the whole body was swollen. At the end of the blood draw, I ran out of blood. They were afraid of my death.”

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To “prolong” his life, Mr Li said his captors gave him albumin and glucose.

As his body weakened, he claims a doctor injected him above his eyebrow as one of the only areas still containing a large enough amount of blood.

Mr Li said he only managed to escape after a member of the gang betrayed them and took him to a hospital.

It was from there he gradually underwent recovery and returned to China. He said he is still weak but can now slowly walk.

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