Suicides not end of responsibility

Will suicide end the responsibility of officials for the accidents they should have been held accountable for?

A week after the landslide in Shenzhen, South China, which killed seven people and left 75 missing, the director of the local urban administration jumped to his death from a residential building on Sunday. He was the head of the department that sanctioned the piling up of excavated earth and construction waste, that buried at least 33 buildings when it collapsed.

On the same day, the chairman of the board directors of a gypsum mine in East China's Shandong province reportedly jumped to his death in a pit after the mine caved in, killing one worker and trapping 17 others.