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19 May 2010 - A court in South China has jailed two "boot camp" instructors for causing the death of a teenager who was being cured from his internet addiction. The two instructors reportedly beat 15-years old Deng Senshan with wooden boards, bamboo and other weapons. Deng's death in August last year provoked an outrage throughout China and prompted the Government to issue new rules for internet rehabilitation clinics. The media uncovered a string of abuse at many of the nation's hundreds of such boot camps. China's online population , already the largest in the world, reached 404 million earlier this year, official data showed. At the time of Deng's death, the media estimated that the mainland had up to 10 million teenage Web addicts.