Another psychiatric patient held after chairs ‘thrown’ from high-rise building
No one injured in incident which follows death of salesman hit by falling chair on Tuesday
A psychiatric patient has been arrested on suspicion of throwing five chairs from his 33rd-floor flat in a Yau Tong public housing estate yesterday, in the second such incident in three days.
No one was injured, a police spokeswoman said.
In Tuesday's incident, a passer-by was killed after being hit by an office chair that was allegedly hurled from the roof of a 10-storey Mong Kok building.
In yesterday's case, a wooden chair, two folding chairs and two plastic stools crashed down from Ko Lun House at Ko Cheung Court on Lei Yue Mun Road shortly before 9am, police said.
One stool and a foldable chair smashed onto the ground floor outside the building, while the rest landed on the first-floor canopy. Officers arrested a 23-year-old man during door-to-door inquiries, the spokeswoman said.
An initial investigation indicated the jobless man was an outpatient at United Christian Hospital's psychiatric section in Kwun Tong, a police source said.