Chinese relatives marry each other in alleged housing scam

Family stages 23 weddings in two weeks to qualify for apartments

A couple exchange wedding rings

Eleven members of a Chinese family staged 23 marriages in two weeks in a scam to get free housing, according to state media.

Officials were offering 40-square-metre flats to residents in a village near Lishui in eastern Zhejiang province, where homes were being demolished to make way for an urban renewal project.

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