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Teacher leaps to death from 27th floor

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A secondary school teacher believed to be unhappy with the standard of his teaching leapt to his death yesterday from the 27th floor of a housing block in Kwai Chung.

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Kan To-ming, 32, became a full-time teacher at the Cheung Sha Wan Catholic Secondary School in September after working in information technology.

He is the third teacher believed to have committed suicide this academic year.

Kan was found lying outside Hing Yat House, Kwai Hing Estate, just before 8am.

Kan lived in Shamshuipo with his wife and two young daughters.

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It was unclear what he was doing in Hing Yat House.

Police said the building's closed-circuit television recorded Kan getting off the lift at the 27th floor.

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