Hong Kong police investigate mysterious fatal fall of man, 22, from Kowloon block of flats
- Resident tells police he heard loud noise before discovering victim lying motionless on building’s first-floor podium
- Force says no signs victim, who was not building tenant, carried burglary tools and no complaints of incident by residents there
Hong Kong police were investigating the death of a 22-year-old man who mysteriously fell from a block of flats in Kowloon’s Sham Shui Po area on Friday morning.
Emergency personnel arrived at the nine-storey block on Yu Chau Street after receiving multiple calls from residents there at around 8.15am.
One resident told police he had heard a loud noise before discovering the victim lying motionless on the building’s first-floor podium near the rear lane, the force said.
A police spokesman said the victim was unconscious as he was taken to Caritas Medical Centre, where he later died.
A source familiar with the case said it was possible the man had fallen after suffering an electric shock from touching an air conditioner outside a third-floor flat.
But another insider on Saturday said the investigation had found no evidence to support this theory.