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Man commits suicide after feeding three children poison
An unemployed man in Taiwan killed his three children by feeding them yogurt and milk laced with pesticide and then committed suicide, police said Tuesday. The 48-year-old man was apparently distraught over his long-term unemployment and being recently diagnosed with liver cancer, police said. The man's Filipino wife found her dead husband and children - aged 3, 6 and 7 - after she returned home from her factory job Monday in the southern county of Kaohsiung, police said. TV reports showed the 29-year-old woman, identified only by her Chinese name, Chun-lan - sobbing in the arms of a neighbor. ``He was worried that his children were too old to be adopted by others and that they might be mistreated if they were sent to an orphanage,'' a neighbor told Formosa Television. Police said the man poisoned the children - two girls and a boy - by adding pesticide to milk and yogurt. The father also drank the lethal mixture.
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