China Youth Daily says "the souls of the 13 Chinese crew members can finally be comforted" when Naw Kham, a Burmese drug trafficker, and three of his accomplices - Hsang Kham from Thailand, Zha Xika from Laos, and Yi Lai, stateless - are executed by lethal injection in Kunming in southwest Yunnan later today.

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The other men were Hsang Kham from Thailand, Yi Lai, who is stateless, and Zha Xika from Laos, said the Xinhua news agency.

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