Three people have jumped recently off the eighth floor
One of Hong Kong's best-known shopping centres, Times Square in Causeway Bay, is installing internal fencing to deter suicide jumpers after three people leaped to their deaths inside the centre.
The centre's management has also stepped up security patrols on the upper floors after a middle-aged man killed himself by jumping from the eighth floor, the highest, in front of horrified shoppers on Easter Sunday afternoon.
The suicide was the third in just over two years inside the 10-year-old shopping centre and took place from the same floor where two people committed suicide last November and in February 2002.
The introduction of the security fencing comes as suicide rates in Hong Kong reach a record high, particularly among middle-aged people who have suffered during the recent economic downturn.
Gary Tse Ka-li, manager of the Wharf Holdings-owned Times Square, said the trauma of the suicide on April 11 had forced management to take preventative measures.
One female shopper who witnessed last month's death at close quarters has been offered counselling by the centre.