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Woman detainee dies falling from police station
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-04-30 15:28
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HEFEI: A woman detainee died Thursday after falling from a third-floor window of a police station in east China's Anhui Province.
Zuo Xiaoqin had been taken to the police station after she allegedly smashed the window of an excavator that had come to demolish her home in Chizhou City, said a statement from the Chizhou municipal government.
Zuo excused herself from police questioning, saying she wanted to use the bathroom, and jumped from a third-floor window, the statement said.
The police rushed her to a local hospital where she died.
The municipal government, police and procuratorate are investigating the death.
