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Danny Mok

An elderly man has fallen to his death while hanging laundry at his home in Hong Kong, less than two weeks after a woman was suspected to have met the same fate in similar circumstances.
Security personnel alerted police after discovering the 83-year-old man lying on a podium near Yee Yip House at Tsing Yi Estate at 4.30pm on Monday.
Paramedics confirmed his death at the scene.
Police suspect he fell while hanging laundry next to a window.
On September 18, a 67-year-old woman was suspected to have fallen to her death while collecting laundry next to a window in a flat at Heng Shan House at Heng On Estate in Ma On Shan.
She was sent to Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin where she was pronounced dead.


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Security personnel alert police after discovering 83-year-old man lying on podium near Yee Yip House at Tsing Yi Estate


Security personnel alert police after discovering 83-year-old man lying on podium near Yee Yip House at Tsing Yi Estate.


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