A single mother and her two sons in Taoyuan City committed suicide by burning charcoal in the closed house late Tuesday night, but the older son, who text messaged his classmates to bid farewell forever, survived the ordeal
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/10/11
By: George Liao,Taiwan News, Staff Writer
(By Central News Agency)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—A single mother and her two sons in Taoyuan City committed suicide by burning charcoal in the closed house late Tuesday night, but the older son, who text messaged his classmates to bid farewell forever, survived the ordeal when police broke into the house, where the mother and the younger son were found not breathing and without a heartbeat, according to a news release posted by Taoyuan Police Department on its website.
Songwu Police Station chief Yao Jin-bao (姚金寶) said that the station received a call after 11 p.m. Tuesday night to inform that a classmate of the caller could be committing charcoal-burning suicide as the caller had just received a farewell text message from the classmate, according to the release.
Yao said the police took the call seriously and sent personnel to Guangfeng Street, Pingzhen District, where the text message was sent, to investigate.
After the exact location of the classmate’s house was confirmed by the caller, police broke in to find smoke permeating the house, the release said. Police searched every room and found the older son, 16, still had vital signs, but unfortunately his 41-year-old mother surnamed Wang and 13-year-old younger son were not breathing and without a heartbeat, according to the document. [FULL STORY]
