Man castrates himself

A man emasculated himself before jumping to his death from a Tsinghua University building Monday, the Beijing Times reported yesterday.

The man surnamed Zhu, 26, used a knife from a fruit vendor to cut his genitals at a campus fruit store at 11:40 am. After visiting a clinic, he ran away from the doctor, then jumped from the third floor of a nearby building. Zhu was not a student or faculty member.

Police are investigating the reason for his behavior.