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Danny Mok

A woman with a chronic illness has been found dead in a Hong Kong public housing flat where her uninjured adult daughter, who suffers from mental illness, had been staying with her for at least two days.
Police received a report at about 1.50pm on Monday from a 42-year-old woman who said she could not reach her 66-year-old mother and 34-year-old younger sister, who lived in Fu Ying House, Fu Cheong Estate, Sham Shui Po.
The report was made after she visited the flat but received no response at the door and feared her mother had collapsed inside, a police spokesman said.
Officers arrived and the younger daughter opened the door. The woman was found on a sofa.
The younger sister, who has schizophrenia, was taken to Caritas Medical Centre in Sham Shui Po for examination.
She told police her mother had been sitting unresponsive on the sofa since Saturday afternoon.

“It is believed that she was dead at the time,” a source familiar with the case said.
Police found no suspicious injuries on the body, and no signs of struggle or ransacking at the scene.
The case is not considered suspicious and the cause of death is pending confirmation.
Police said the deceased had long suffered from diabetes and hypertension. Since her husband’s death in 2024, she had been living in the flat with her younger daughter, the source said.
The elder daughter had visited her mother on Saturday morning and found nothing unusual.
On Monday morning, relatives from mainland China went to the flat but received no answer. They then contacted the elder daughter, who went to check on her mother.
In May last year, a three-year-old girl was found alone in a public housing flat in Kwun Tong’s Lok Wah North Estate, with the body of her 40-year-old mother, who is believed to have died in bed several days earlier.
In February that year, a 44-year-old man with an intellectual disability was found alone in his flat at Tuen Mun’s Butterfly Estate, next to the body of his 78-year-old father and carer, who had been dead for at least two days.


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Woman, 66, found dead in Sham Shui Po flat after elder daughter raised alarm when relatives got no response at door, with case not treated as suspicious


Woman, 66, found dead in Sham Shui Po flat after elder daughter raised alarm when relatives got no response at door, with case not treated as suspicious.


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Mentally ill woman spends 2 days in Hong Kong flat with dead mother on sofa

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Woman, 66, found dead in Sham Shui Po flat after elder daughter raised alarm when relatives got no response at door, with case not treated as suspicious

Woman, 66, found dead in Sham Shui Po flat after elder daughter raised alarm when relatives got no response at door, with case not treated as suspicious