Former chief prosecutor jumps to death

GUANGZHOU: A former chief prosecutor in Maoming, a city in South China's Guangdong province, jumped to his death from the eighth floor of a residential building in Zhanjiang on Friday, the police said.

"Anxiety over his health" may have led Liu Xianjin, former chief of the Maoming Municipal People's Procuratorate, to take the extreme step, they said.

The police received a report at about 5 am that Liu was found lying dead near an apartment building in Chikan district of the city, neighboring Maoming.