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A Chinese teenager sold one of his kidneys for just £2,000 so that he could buy the new iPad 2.

The 17-year-old boy, identified only by his surname, Zheng, responded to an online advertisement offering cash to organ donors, reports the Daily Telegraph.

“I wanted to buy an iPad 2, but I didn’t have the money,” the boy told Shenzhen TV in the southern province of Guangdong.

“When I surfed the internet I found an advert posted online by agent saying they were able to pay for a kidney.”

After negotiations, the boy travelled north to the city of Chenzhou in Hunan Province where the kidney was removed at a local hospital.

The boy, who has suffered complications following the surgery, returned home but was unable to keep what he had done from his mother.

“When he came back, he had a laptop and a new Apple handset,” his mother, identified as Miss Liu, told the station, showing off her son’s livid red scar.

“I wanted to know how he had got so much money and he finally confessed that he had sold one of his kidneys.”

The mother took the son back to Chenzhou to report the crime to the police, however, the mobiles of the three agents that Zheng had contacted were all switched off.

The hospital, which admitted contracting out its urology department to a private businessman, denied any knowledge of the surgery.

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