Stabbed for snoring

A Chinese college student fed up with his roommate's snoring has confessed to stabbing him to death in the middle of the night.

Zhao Yan, 22, was stabbed in the chest and back late last year in his room at Jilin Agricultural University in the northeastern province of Jilin, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

His roommate, 23-year-old Guo Liwei, confessed yesterday that he stabbed Zhao because of a dispute over his snoring, the report said.

Guo had previously complained to Zhao about his snoring and had posted videos of him snoring on a university website.