A toddler fell to her death from the window of her father's ninth-floor North Point flat yesterday.
Hong Kong-born Yim Ka-ying, 2½, had been visiting her father in the city with her mainland mother and aunt.
She was playing beside her aunt, 36, on a sofa in the living room of the flat on Tsat Tse Mui Road when she fell at about 11.30am. The sofa was immediately in front of a 45-cm window.
"The toddler was playing and climbing around by her aunt on the sofa when she suddenly clambered up it and fell out of the window," a police officer said.
The aunt "went mad" and ran downstairs for help from a security guard, he said.
Yim, who was an only child, fell on the building's first-floor podium. She was declared dead at the Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Chai Wan just before 1pm.