Billionaire financial crisis victim

74-year-old billionaire Merckle, who was ranked as the world's 94th richest person by Forbes magazine in 2008, threw himself in front of a train. Merckle's family controls some of Gerrmany's best-known companies, including HeidelbergCement, and they reportedly lost hundreds of millions of euros on investments last year. Joanna Partridge reports for Reuters

Reuters | January 12, 2009

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