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A man has killed his baby daughter and himself on Facebook Live, Thai police have said.
Wuttisan Wongtalay killed 11-month-old Beta at an abandoned hotel close to the international airport in Phuket yesterday afternoon.
Lieutenant Jullaus Suvannin, who was one of the first on the scene, said they found a smartphone propped up against a wall at the scene.
He said: ‘They had already died when I arrived there.’
Police said they believed the man had previously argued with the mother of the murdered child, an 11-month girl called Beta. He hanged himself and his daughter, they said.
It is believed that he had accused her of cheating on him before he disappeared with Beta.
Channel 3 television broadcast footage of the child’s distraught mother, flanked by relatives, picking up both her daughter’s body and the man’s corpse from the local hospital today.
A Facebook spokesman said: ‘This is an appalling incident and our hearts go out to the family of the victim. There is absolutely no place for content of this kind on Facebook and it has now been removed.’
The killing comes just days after Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg vowed to work to keep the world’s leading social network from being used to propagate harrowing acts like murder and suicide.
Zuckerberg was responding to pressure after a man in the US state of Ohio used Facebook Live to broadcast footage of himself walking up to a stranger in the street and shooting him dead.
The killer went on to fatally shoot himself after a massive manhunt and police chase.
During a speech last Wednesday Zuckerberg conceded that Facebook had ‘a lot of work’ to do on the issue.
‘We are going to work on building common ground, not just getting more opinions out there,’ he added.
Phuket’s governor called on Thais not to share the four-minute clip of the murder and suicide, copies of which could still be found on the social network on Tuesday afternoon.
