A WOMAN committed suicide because her son was still single at the age of 30 in Shandong province, China, reported China Press.

The 53-year-old victim, known only as Wang, apparently drank pesticide with white spirit when her husband and son were not at home on Thursday.

Her husband, known only as Liu, suspected something amiss when he found the house to be locked from the inside after returning home in the evening.

He managed to get into the house, and found his wife lying unconscious in the storeroom.

The family then rushed Wang to the hospital but she was pronounced dead at about 4am on Saturday.

There were emptied bottles of white spirit and pesticide in the house.

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“I was quite high down there before Madonna noticed me.

“She asked me to come on stage because she was afraid that the crowd was not high enough.

“I was so excited, it’s Madonna calling!” Chen was quoted by the daily.

Chen even danced on stage which Madonna promptly said “So Great!”

> Found in translation is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.





