Boyfriend arrested after Austrian-Filipino woman killed on Hong Kong building site
Police say man was attacking victim when they arrived at the scene
An Austrian-Filipino woman was apparently bludgeoned to death on a construction site in Hong Kong in the early hours of Tuesday.
Andrea Bayr’s boyfriend, 27, was arrested on suspicion of killing the 25-year-old with an electric drill.
Police said the man, of Pakistani origin, was attacking the victim with an electric drill at the Hung Cheung Road site in Tuen Mun at about 2.15am when officers arrived in response to a call from the couple’s friend.
“Officers subdued the man and arrested him at the scene,” said assistant Tuen Mun district commander Superintendent Chan Chun-chun.
The suspect, a night-shift security guard at the site, suffered minor leg injuries and was receiving treatment at Tuen Mun Hospital at Tuesday lunchtime. He was still being held for questioning at the hospital’s custodial ward and had not been charged.