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Man commits suicide after killing son, daughter

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-05-30 22:00

NANNING - A man committed suicide after killing his son and daughter in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region Monday afternoon, police said.

The man, a native of South China's Hunan province, beat his three-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter to death while they slept before jumping off of a three-story building in the city of Liuzhou, said a spokesman from the region's public security bureau.

The spokesman did not give any further details about the case. A police investigation is under way.