Filipino woman, 30, falls to death in suspected window-cleaning accident
Victim believed to have lost balance while doing housework in her seventh-floor flat in Mong Kok
A 30-year-old Filipino woman fell to her death from a Mong Kok flat on Wednesday night. She is suspected to have lost her balance while cleaning windows.
Firefighters and police were called to the scene at 179 Tung Choi Street at about 10pm after the woman was found lying unconscious on the canopy on the second floor.
She was sent to Kwong Wah Hospital, where resuscitation efforts failed, and she was declared dead.
Her husband, who accompanied paramedics to the hospital, was distraught and emotional.
The victim was believed to have lived in a seventh-floor flat.
Initial investigations by police did not reveal any suspicious circumstances.
Records show that since 2015, at least 11 people have accidentally fallen from high-rise buildings while cleaning windows or carrying out renovation work, resulting in death or severe injury.