Reports of Suicide in China Linked to Missing iPhone
News media in China are reporting that a 25-year-old employee of Foxconn, which manufactures products for Apple (AAPL) there, committed suicide last week after being interrogated about a missing prototype for a new iPhone.
According to publications that include Shanghai Daily, Sun Danyong, a recent engineering graduate, jumped out of the window of his apartment last Thursday. The reports said Sun, who had been tasked with sending iPhone prototypes to Apple, had been under suspicion for stealing after one of the handsets went missing. Some publications reported that, in the days prior to his suicide, Sun had been detained and beaten by a senior official in the security department of the Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing giant.
