Children of Migrant Parents Left Alone to Die

(Beijing) – The recent deaths of four siblings whose migrant-worker parents left them unattended for more than a year has focused attention on the high price rural families are paying to support themselves and China's economic development.

Police said the four children – a 14-year-old boy and his three sisters ages 10, eight and five – committed suicide together on the night of June 9 in their home in Tiankan, a town in a farming area under the jurisdiction of the Guizhou Province city of Bijie, in the southwestern part of the country.