수요일 홍콩 타이쿠싱(Taikoo Shing)에서 교육 문제로 다툰 48세의 정부 사회복지사와 12세 딸이 극단적 선택을 했다.
다툼은 수요일 오전 7시 45분에 일어났다. 이후 어머니는 오전 9시경 타이쿠싱에 위치한 19층 자택에서 투신했다. 딸은 어머니의 시신을 발견해 경찰에 신고했으며, 이후 가족들에 의해 파멜라 유드 네더솔 이스턴 병원(Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital)으로 이송되었다. 딸은 병원 심리 센터에서 어머니의 직장 상사이기도 했던 공인 임상심리사로부터 상담을 받았다. 이후 오후 7시 5분경 아버지와 함께 귀가했다. 그러나 몇 시간 뒤 딸 역시 거실에서 투신했다.
A 61-year-old man fell to his death from the balcony of his public housing flat in Sha Tin on Wednesday night after a dispute with his wife and son over education expenses, police said.
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A 69-year-old American woman died after plunging from the 29th-floor pool deck of a Hong Kong hotel in Wan Chai, injuring seven people on the ground, one seriously. The fall shattered glass panels near the lobby entrance. A police source said she had suffered from depression and stopped taking medication in March.
Police investigating the murders of a 76-year-old mother and her 41-year-old daughter in their Izumi City, Osaka Prefecture apartment said each suffered more than 10 stab wounds to the head and neck. A male relative discovered the bodies around 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday after receiving a call from the daughter's workplace about her absence. No murder weapon was found at the scene.
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An elderly man in his seventies died after falling on a bus in Hong Kong on Saturday. Police received a report at 8:50 a.m. that the man had fallen near 125 Chatham Road South in Tsim Sha Tsui. He was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital where he was later certified dead.
An elderly resident in a northwest Hong Kong village ordered to leave her home by the end of May has criticised government rehousing plans for the Northern Metropolis project, saying they risk splitting her family.