Singer Chen Lin dead in suspected suicide

Mainland pop singer Chen Lin is dead after apparently leaping to her death from an apartment building in Beijing, on the same day as her former husband's birthday.

Lin, who remarried three months ago, jumped from the ninth floor of a residential building in the Olympic Garden community in Chaoyang district early Saturday, the Beijing News reported yesterday. Lin was 39.

Media reports said the apartment belonged to a female friend and that singer was neatly dressed and wore a mask. She also had neck wound covered with a bandage, Sina.com reported.