Police are investigating a suspected murder and suicide after a 44-year-old woman and her 7-year-old daughter were found dead in their home in Kowloon’s Tai Kok Tsui on Tuesday.
At 6:31pm, a 28-year-old domestic worker called police and reported an odd smell coming from an apartment at Shining Heights on 83 Sycamore Street in Tak Kok Tsui, according to a government release.
Firemen broke into the apartment and found the woman and the girl lying unconscious inside the bedroom. A basin with burned charcoal was found inside the room.
The woman and the girl were pronounced dead at the scene. Officers said they believed they had died about a week earlier.
The woman, a single mother who worked at a medical clinic, arranged for her domestic worker to go home for a holiday as she and her daughter were due to go overseas, Apple Daily reported.
The maid returned to Hong Kong two days earlier, but could not contact the woman and assumed the mother and daughter were still overseas. On Tuesday night, the maid went to the apartment and called police when she noticed a strange smell coming from the flat.
Officers found a suicide note in the apartment and believe the the woman just broken up with her boyfriend. There had been similar tragedies in Hong Kong in which parents committed suicide with their children.
Last month, a 35-year-old single mother, who was believed to be suffering from postpartum depression, threw her two-year-old son from their flat in Yau Tong Estate in Kwun Tong.
The Samaritans run a 24-hour multilingual suicide prevention hotline +852 2896 0000 or emails can be sent to jo@samaritans.org.hk.
Read: Murder-suicide leaves mother dead, son in critical condition
Omg.
Wrong info asiantimes….the filipina maid went to the police station with her agency to report her missing employer since she came back from vacation in the philippines,so they gave all the details to the police officer to make them do a move…so they decided to accompany them to there building(take note…no one know what happen yet,even the odd smell u mention),when the police arrived to there building thats the time they smell fishy,and contacts the firemans to force open the door…thats it they found there body…
Darasudos nga asia times, tsismoso ang dating!!
Break up with BF and killing an innocent 7 yo daughter is really retarded mind .
There is when you are referring to a place and Their is when you are referring to a person
My employer don’t give me my food allowance.. I’m the one who buy my coffee and biscuits as, my breakfast every morning.when I cooked noodles for them every morning I have to get some for me…that’s my employer style… My lunch we’re always the left over every night…
Nioren B Jose anong klaseng oage ito. nag popost na walang exact details. madaming beses na yan
Allehsor Destiny Trebla hi…hindi q din alam Asia Times naman nakalagay.
Asiatimes nmn nklgy,kht anong mling kwento bsta may blita lng cla kht mali cge lng…your not in the scene asiantimes,kumbaga ngbased lng k u sa sinbi s inyo,na hnd mn lng k u ngimbestiga sa katotohanan,ni hnd nyo nkausap mismo ung helper….kng totoosin yng "PINAY" helper n yan xa ang dahilan ng happiness ng bata sa huling sandli nya,hnd nyo alm yn bec u didnt conduct your own investigation….sna nxt tym mgbgy k u ng totoong pangyayari na naaayon sa totoong pangyayari…
Ay grabe magpapakamatay idadamay.pa.anak
I fell sad when I heard the news..
I love this girl inspite off, I am not her nanny..I saw her everyday at school.
Rest in peace my cutie mash potato ????????,