Family of dead worker decides not to sue city

The family of a worker who fell to his death while installing a billboard - after urban patrol officers removed his ladder - has no plans to sue the city government, a source close to the matter said.

Ou Xiangbin, 30, died on Jan 23 after plummeting from the roof of a three-story building in Zhengzhou, Henan province, where he and his colleague Zhou Zhixiong had just set up a billboard.

Before the tragedy, urban patrol officers - better known as chengguan - had spotted the structure and ordered the two men to take it down, as it was unauthorized. They also took away the workers' ladder and tricycle.