噩耗 (è hào): sb の死のニュース

After receiving a call that his mother was critically ill, he rushed back to his hometown, but unexpectedly, as soon as he got off the bus, he heard the news of his father's death: his father had passed away the night before.

The company sent me on a business trip to another city. As soon as I got off the plane and turned on my phone, I received the news from a colleague that our department manager had been killed in a car accident.

After retiring, he lived alone in the countryside. One morning, a neighbor found him lying peacefully in bed, no longer breathing. The news of his death quickly spread through the whole village.