Murder suspect hosed off eighth-floor ledge

Chinese police used a firefighter's water cannon to knock a murder suspect from a hospital window ledge.



The man, Yu Wenyi, was suspected of killing his 71-year-old mother-in-law and a 13-year-old nephew and a bicycle caretaker.

Local police in Shenyang, in northeast China's Liaoning Province, cornered the man in a ward on the eighth floor of the hospital after a call from the man's wife.



After a two-hour standoff in which the man threatened to jump from a window, police lost patience and asked firefighters to hose him off.

The man was reportedly unhurt after falling into an airbag waiting for him below.