Senior information official leaps six floors to his death, sources say
Information office's deputy chief was questioned months before tragedy
A senior official from the State Council Information Office jumped to his death from his Beijing office, three sources familiar with the matter said.
News of the incident was censored on weibo.
Li Wufeng, 56, the office's deputy director, died after leaping from the sixth floor of his office building on Monday afternoon, the sources said.
His death was under investigation and it was not immediately clear what drove him to the act, according to a person familiar with Li.
One source said Li was questioned several times by Communist Party discipline officers over the past few months, but the nature of it was unclear.
"It could have been an extramarital affair or anything else," the source said.
A person who met Li many times described him as "a very friendly person". "Very scholarly and intellectual, too. And I don't think he cared much about money," the person said.