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Feb 8, 2010
Daughter hurled from balcony
HONG KONG - A WOMAN hurled her four-year-old daughter from the seventh floor of a Hong Kong shopping mall before leaping to her death, the latest in a string of murder-suicide attempts, police said on Monday. The young girl survived the incident on Sunday afternoon after landing in a net below, and suffered no serious injuries, police said. But her 41-year-old mother crashed through the net - intended to prevent rubbish falling on pedestrians below - and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The family had been eating lunch at the mall, and some reports said there was a heated argument between the child's parents shortly before the incident. The South China Morning Post, citing police, said the mother had no history of mental illness and the family did not have a background of domestic violence. Last week, a mother reportedly suffering from post-natal depression plunged to her death along with her two-month-old baby after jumping from the family's flat. In January last year, a man threw his 30-month-old niece out of an apartment window before leaping to his own death. -- AFP
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Feb 8, 2010
Daughter hurled from balcony
HONG KONG - A WOMAN hurled her four-year-old daughter from the seventh floor of a Hong Kong shopping mall before leaping to her death, the latest in a string of murder-suicide attempts, police said on Monday. The young girl survived the incident on Sunday afternoon after landing in a net below, and suffered no serious injuries, police said. But her 41-year-old mother crashed through the net - intended to prevent rubbish falling on pedestrians below - and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The family had been eating lunch at the mall, and some reports said there was a heated argument between the child's parents shortly before the incident. The South China Morning Post, citing police, said the mother had no history of mental illness and the family did not have a background of domestic violence. Last week, a mother reportedly suffering from post-natal depression plunged to her death along with her two-month-old baby after jumping from the family's flat. In January last year, a man threw his 30-month-old niece out of an apartment window before leaping to his own death. -- AFP
