Family questions cause of death

Family members of Hunan province's former Wugang city deputy mayor, who died last month, are applying to the Ministry of Public Security for a re-investigation of the alleged suicide case, saying the facts show that he was murdered.

"I'm determined to demand a reasonable explanation for what happened to my husband as long as I have breath," Liu Yuehong, widow of Yang Kuansheng, told China Daily yesterday.

Yang, a 47-year-old deputy mayor of Wugang in Hunan, was found dead at about 6 am on Nov 26 outside a government dormitory building where he lived in the city.