An autopsy will be conducted today on the body of a 16-year-old boy, reported missing since Saturday, whose body was found floating in the sea off Chai Wan with a neck injury.
Police said the body of Eason Tsang, a jobless school dropout, was found by a man fishing at Ka Yip Street on Monday night.
Marine police brought the body, decomposed but still stained with a large amount of blood, to their Sai Wan Ho base.
Police estimate the boy, whose identity card was with him, had died at least two days earlier. They regard his death as suspicious.
A person familiar with the investigation said police would not be able to determine the cause of death or how the injury was inflicted until the autopsy report was ready.
'Things will be clearer after forensic experts have conducted the autopsy,' he said.