Thai man broadcasts 11-month-old daughter's murder live on Facebook; kills himself later

A man in Thailand broadcast himself murdering his 11-month-old daughter in two video clips he posted on Facebook, before killing himself, police said on Tuesday (April 25).

Reports state people could access the gruesome video for almost 24 hours on the man's Facebook page, before it was taken down around 5 pm in Bangkok (1000 GMT) on Tuesday. The video was removed almost a day after it was posted online.

Social networking giant Facebook last week had said that it was reviewing the process of how it monitored violent footage and other objectionable material posted on its site. Facebook released the statement after an elderly man was shot dead in Cleveland, Ohio, US, and his video was available on the networking site for almost two hours before it was taken down by authorities.

After facing severe backlash for showing the disturbing video, Facebook's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg said that the firm would do all it can to prevent such content from appearing on its site in future.

The video posted by the Thai man showed the father, Wuttisan Wongtalay, tying a rope around his daughter's neck before dropping her off from a rooftop of a deserted building in the Thai seaside town of Phuket.

Wuttisan later hanged himself too, although his suicide was not broadcast on Facebook, police later found his lifeless body beside his dead daughter, the police officer in charge of the case, ullaus Suvannin, said.

Reports state that the man was paranoid that his wife did not love him and that she would eventually leave him. "He was having paranoia about his wife leaving him and not loving him," Jullaus told Reuters.

The images of the mother shown on television showed the woman weeping while holding the body of her dead child.

"This is the most evil clip I've seen in my life," Avada Teeraponkoon, one of the Facebook users said. "I couldn't stand it for more than one second."

"How can he watch his own child stop breathing?" said another, Rujirek Polglang. "He should have just died alone."

Reports state that before the video was taken down, it had around 112,000 views on Facebook by mid-afternoon on Tuesday, while the second clip of the gruesome video showed around 258,000 views.