Expat mother in Hong Kong suspected of drowning baby before killing herself
Police investigating after bodies discovered in luxury home in Hong Kong’s Southern district
An expatriate mother may have drowned her seven-month-old daughter before hanging herself at their home in Hong Kong’s Southern district, police have said.
The 34-year-old woman’s husband reported the case at around 4pm on Monday after arriving at their flat at the luxury Shouson Garden residential estate on Shouson Hill Road.
Police said he returned home and found her hanging inside the master bedroom’s walk-in wardrobe. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.
The unresponsive child, who was found in a water-filled baby bath in the kitchen, was also pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators suspect the baby had been drowned.
The mother, a French woman holding a Hong Kong identity card, was believed to have been suffering from depression.
Security footage showed that no one else was in the flat.