Thai killings posted on Facebook Live
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A man in Phuket filmed himself killing his child and then himself on Facebook Live, Thai police said yesterday, the latest example of the social network’s live-streaming function being used to broadcast deadly crimes.
Officers on the southern resort island said they were alerted to the video by friends of the man and rushed to an abandoned hotel near the international airport on Monday.
“They had already died when I arrived there,” said Lieutenant Jullaus Suvannin, one of the first on the scene, adding a smartphone was found propped up against a wall.
Police said they believed the man had previously argued with the mother of the murdered child, an 11-month girl. The man had hung himself and his daughter, they said.
Channel 3 television broadcast footage of the child’s distraught mother, flanked by relatives, picking up both her daughter’s body and the man’s corpse from the local hospital yesterday.
Facebook was not immediately available for comment.
The killing comes just days after Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg vowed to work to keep the world’s leading social network from being used to propagate harrowing acts like murder and suicide.
Zuckerberg was responding to pressure after a man in the American state of Ohio used Facebook Live to broadcast footage of himself walking up to a stranger in a street and shooting him dead. The killer went on to fatally shoot himself after a massive manhunt.
Phuket’s governor called on Thais not to share the four-minute clip of the murder and suicide.
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