A man in Phuket filmed himself killing his baby daughter and then himself on Facebook Live, Thai police have said.<\/p>\n
Officers on the southern resort island said they were alerted to the video by friends of the man and rushed to an abandoned hotel near the international airport on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
\u2018They had already died when I arrived there,\u2019 Lieutenant Jullaus Suvannin, one of the first on the scene, told AFP, adding a smartphone was found propped up against a wall.<\/p>\n
Police said they believed the man had previously argued with the mother of the murdered child, an 11-month girl. The man had hung himself and his daughter, they said.<\/p>\n
Channel 3 television broadcast footage of the child\u2019s distraught mother, flanked by relatives, picking up both her daughter\u2019s body and the man\u2019s corpse from the local hospital on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
A Facebook spokesman said: \u2018This 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.\u2019<\/p>\n
The killing comes just days after Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg vowed to work to keep the world\u2019s leading social network from being used to propagate harrowing acts like murder and suicide.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The killer went on to fatally shoot himself after a massive manhunt and police chase.<\/p>\n
During a speech last Wednesday Zuckerberg conceded that Facebook had \u2018a lot of work\u2019 to do on the issue.<\/p>\n
\u2018We are going to work on building common ground, not just getting more opinions out there,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n
Phuket\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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A man in Phuket filmed himself killing his baby daughter and then himself on Facebook Live, Thai police have said. Officers on the southern resort island said they were alerted to the video by friends of the man and rushed to an abandoned hotel near the international airport on Monday afternoon. \u2018They had already died …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[2078],"yoast_head":"\n