Man commits suicide after feeding three children poison
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2003-09-09 16:54

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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