*Man throws his four children off bridge*

Police boat mobilised in search for the children's bodies - 8 January 2008
Police divers, boats and helicopters are looking for the children

A man in the US state of Alabama has confessed to throwing his four
young children off a bridge, police said.

Lam Luong, 37, has been charged with four counts of murder. Divers are
searching the waters along the coast of Alabama for the bodies of the
children.

Mr Luong reported the children missing on Monday but later told police
he threw them from a bridge connecting an island to the mainland near
Mobile.

Police said he told them he had had an argument with his wife.

Police divers, boats and helicopters are looking for the bodies of
two-year-old Hannah Luong, one-year-old Lindsey Luong and their
four-month-old brother Danny Luong.

Also missing, presumed dead, is three-year-old Ryan Phan - the son of Mr
Luong's wife, Ngoc Phan, from a different relationship.

Mr Luong came to Alabama from Vietnam in 1984 when he was a teenager and
worked as a shrimper.