Chinese family of three attempt suicide over loan shark debts
Parents and daughter, 20, rescued by police after taking overdoses following tip-off by worried friend
A family of three from southern China tried to commit suicide because they could not pay off loan sharks, but were saved after a friend of the daughter was unable to contact her and called the police, according to a news report.
Police had also been warned to check on the family the previous day after the daughter posted a suicide note online, but the family had denied to officers they were considering killing themselves, the China News Service reported.
The family was originally from Beijing, but were living in Haikou in Hainan province and the father’s business had failed, according to the article.
The daughter, a 20-year-old former nurse, applied for credit cards and took out loans to help with their finances, but even selling off their homes was not enough to pay off their debts to loan sharks.
The daughter posted a note online on Sunday saying: “I don’t think my father doesn’t love my mother or me or deliberately set me up … my mother loves me to the bone, so I decided to go to that place with them.”