FILICIDE? New Taipei City police found the bodies of a girl, 10, and a boy, 7, who apparently died of suffocation, in their father’s apartment

Taipei Times
Date: Apr 23, 2019
By: Tseng Chien-ming and Jonathan Chin  /  Staff reporter, staff writer and CNA

New Taipei City police were yesterday looking for a man, surnamed Wu (吳), who is suspected of murdering his two children at their residence in the city’s Taishan District (泰山).

On Sunday, first responders were called to the scene by Wu’s estranged wife, who had entered the apartment in search of their children, after he failed to return them as per their custodial agreement and to respond to her calls, the New Taipei City Police Department said.

The bodies of the children, a girl of 10 and a boy of seven, were found respectively on the top and bottom bunk of a bunk bed, each with a blanket pulled over their faces, police said.

Although the exact cause of death is pending until autopsies could be performed, preliminary examinations indicate that the children had died of suffocation, police said yesterday.    [FULL  STORY]