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Thai father live-streams baby’s killing
By Lindsey Bever
The Washington Post News Service

A man in Thailand reportedly hanged his 11-month-old daughter while broadcasting on Facebook Live on Monday and then hanged himself in what the social media company has called an ‘‘appalling incident’’ amid a recent string of live-streamed tragedies.

The Nation, a Thai news website, reported that the man, who was identified as Wuttisan Wongtalay and whose age has been reported as both 20 and 21, killed his daughter and then himself at an abandoned hotel in Phuket, a Thai island in the Andaman Sea. The video clip showed the father tie a noose around his daughter’s neck and drop her from a rooftop, according to the website. The child could be heard crying briefly before he retrieved her tiny body.

The man did not broadcast his own death, according to local reports.

Thai police officer Jullaus Suvannin told the Guardian that the man was ‘‘having paranoia about his wife leaving him and not loving him.’’

The incident underscores other brutal crimes, violence, and self-inflicted pain that has played out on Facebook and other social media platforms.

‘‘This is an appalling incident and our hearts go out to the family of the victim,’’ Facebook said in a statement released Tuesday about the Thai case.

‘‘There is absolutely no place for acts of this kind on Facebook and the footage has now been removed.’’

It remains unclear when the company removed the footage.

In another incident that received wide attention, police said 37-year-old Steve W. Stephens posted a video on Facebook of himself killing a 74-year-old man in cold blood on Easter Sunday on a street in east Cleveland.

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