By
Daisy CL Mandap
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| A photo of rescuers attending to the victim shared on Facebook by a neighbor |
A woman who fell from a flat in Ma On Shan earlier
today, Jan 21, is a local Chinese and not a foreign domestic worker, says Hong
Kong Police. Neither was she cleaning windows.
A police spokeswoman said the victim who was certified
dead at Princess Margaret Hospital at 9:31 this morning was a 36-year-old local
Chinese surnamed Wong, who was suffering from a mental illness.
The management of the building at Double Cove on Wu
Kai Sha Road reportedly called the police after seeing the woman lying
unconscious on the ground. She was rushed to hospital where she was certified
dead.
No suicide note was found at the scene.
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| Police say the earlier report they received about the victim being FDH was wrong |
Earlier reports from various media organizations and
residents of the estate who shared photos from the scene, said the woman was a
foreign domestic worker who fell while cleaning windows in a flat on Tower 5 of
Double Cove.
The story immediately spread, as it came exactly a
week after an Indonesian domestic worker fell from a building on Tin Hau Temple
Road in North Point. Police confirmed the accident happened while the helper
was cleaning windows.
Dangerous window-cleaning is a prohibited act under
the standard employment contract of all foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong.
All FDHs who were signed
up to work in Hong Kong from Jan 1, 2017, could not be asked to clean any
window above the ground unless it is fitted with a locked grille, and no part
of their body except for the arms should extend outside.
