SHENZHEN, China, May 15 (UPI) -- Officials at the Chinese technology giant Foxconn said Saturday a man who died the night before was the ninth employee to plummet from a building this year.
A 21-year-old man named Liang died after falling from the top of a seven-floor dormitory building in the southern city of Shenzhen, the company said. Liang was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Police found a knife near Liang's body and were investigating whether the death was a suicide, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Seven of the nine Foxconn employees who have fallen from buildings since January have died and two remain hospitalized.
Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest maker of computer and electronics parts with 486,000 employees, is part of the Taiwan electronics giant Hon Hai Group.
