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When a two-year-old girl and one-year-old boy fell to their deaths from a 15th-floor apartment
late last year, their father, surnamed Zhang, was filmed crying in despair at what appeared to have been a horrible accident (tai nạn thương tâm).

Now Zhang stands accused of killing them.

A court in Chongqing, the southwestern municipality where the incident happened on Nov. 2, will hear the case on July 26, Sixth Tone’s sister publication The Paper reported Friday. Zhang, 26, and his girlfriend are both being charged with intentional homicide (cố ý giết người).

The case has triggered a public outcry in China. On social media, many people are calling for the two to be given the death penalty (án tử hình).

The children’s mother, surnamed Chen, posted a series of videos on her social media accounts on Friday, saying through tears that her ex-husband and his girlfriend were guilty.

...Zhang said he wanted to divorce her in April 2019, three months after she had given birth to their second child. Before the divorce was finalized, Zhang started dating his girlfriend.

Zhang’s girlfriend, however, refused to move in with him because he had children, and the couple briefly broke up. Before and after a three-month split, the statement of charges says, they discussed methods of killing the children. They settled on throwing them from Zhang’s apartment. A first attempt, in October, failed because Chen was present...

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