Hunan

Murder-suicide in union office

The labor union chairman of an archive bureau in the city of Zhuzhou in central China's Hunan province killed himself by jumping from a building after killing the bureau's chief on Sunday, local police confirmed. Police said in a statement that a man surnamed Kuang fatally stabbed Shen Bailan at 7:40 am in her office. He then committed suicide by jumping from the third floor of the building. A further investigation is under way, police said.