A Hong Kong student jumped to his death in front of 600 of his fellow pupils, teachers and his younger brother at a school assembly, the police said on Tuesday. Wong Ling-fung, 17, leaped seven floors from a staircase on Monday at Tung Chung Catholic School just after school began.
Students ran screaming as Wong landed on the outdoor playground where the assembly was being held. He was declared dead at the scene by paramedics. The police said a note found in his schoolbag said he was unhappy and had a poor relationship with a teacher.
Wong had been diagnosed with psychosis two years ago, a report in the Standard newspaper said.
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Man stripped of nationality over polygamy
Geneva, May 25: A Turkish man who was granted Swiss nationality after marrying a Swiss woman must now return his passport as he has a second family in his country of origin, a Swiss court ruled on Tuesday.
The man, who was married for 26 years to a Swiss national, was found to have a partner in Turkey with whom he had two daughters, Swiss newswire ATS reported. In 2003, he had obtained Swiss citizenship thanks to his marriage to the Swiss citizen.
His wife, who is 20 years older, was aware of his second life in Turkey until about five years after the man became a Swiss citizen. —AFP
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Serbia: Family wants Mladic declared dead
Belgrade, May 25: The family of Serbia’s fugitive war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic is preparing a request to have him legally declared dead, a lawyer said on Tuesday.
However, the Serbian officials said this would not affect their long search for the Bosnian Serb military commander in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, as they either had to prove conclusively that Ratko Mladic was indeed dead or arrest him if he was alive.
Serbia applied for European Union membership in 2009, but its progress is linked to Belgrade’s full cooperation with the United Nations war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia and the arrest of remaining war crime fugitives.
—Reuters
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Surveillance system along Af-Pak border
Islamabad, May 25: American-Nato forces in Afghanistan have installed a sophisticated surveillance system along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border to monitor the movement of insurgents in the area, officials said.
Equipped with more than half a dozen security cameras, the sprawling 300-yards-tall balloon type satellite tower has been installed at Spin Boldak town and can easily be seen from Chaman town, which lies about a kilometre south of Spin Boldak, media reports here said.
The tower would be instrumental to monitor the border especially during the Nato operation against the Taliban in Kandahar, reports our Pakistan correspondent