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Tin Shui Wai 'flat from hell' offered for rent

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Clifford Lo

The Tin Shui Wai flat where a 31- year-old mother and her two daughters were hacked to death is to be put up for rent under a scheme aimed at finding tenants for Hong Kong's 'flats from hell'.

It is unclear when the 350 sq ft unit where Kim Shuk-ying and her two daughters, Li Yin-li, six and Li Tsz-wan, five, died will be put up for rent. But like other flats under the scheme, no rent reduction or incentives will be offered to tempt would-be tenants.

On Friday the only suspect in the crime - Kim's husband Li Pak-sum, 44 - died in Tuen Mun Hospital after spending 12 days in a coma. He was also found in the flat with three knife wounds to his stomach.

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Murder squad detectives are continuing their investigation.

The programme - called the Express Flat Allocation Scheme - began in 1997 and is run by the Housing Authority.

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The latest batch of 100 flats with a chequered past put on offer includes one in Sheung Shui where a 41-year-old woman threw her two sons, aged 10 and six, out of the 14th-floor window to their deaths in 1998 before jumping herself.

At another flat in Tsz Ching Estate, Tsz Wan Shan, a man, 49, hanged himself in 2002 after killing his nine-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter and seriously injuring his other daughter, 12.

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