A seven-year-old South Korean girl was killed instantly after being 
struck by the body of a man as he plunged from his 10th floor apartment 
in an apparent suicide, a report said on Thursday.
        The 40-year-old man jumped from the flat in the southern port
 of Busan on Wednesday evening and hit the daughter of his neighbour who
 was emerging from the apartment building, SBS TV station said.
                    
        The man, identified by his surname, Jang, died immediately. 
The girl, who was with her father, was taken to hospital but pronounced 
dead soon after arrival.
        Jang had long been treated for mental illness and depression before the accident, SBS quoted an area police official as saying.

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