Daughter alleged to have hired man to kill father

A 25-year-old woman in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, has been arrested on suspicion of hiring someone to kill her father after he sexually harassed her, Yangtze Evening News reported.

Police found that a man surnamed Zheng killed the woman's father, surnamed Fu and in his 60s, on Sunday night, and it appeared the killer was hired by the daughter, surnamed Hu.

Hu's mother told the newspaper she divorced Fu one year after she gave birth to Hu, and the father and daughter were estranged.

But the duo met on July 10 when Fu agreed to give a sum of money to his daughter but instead sexually harassed her, according to Hu's mother.

The case is under further investigation.