Hong Kong, February 10: A Hong Kong widow who lost her husband in an accident three years ago was killed when an elderly neighbour plunged from her high-rise flat and landed on top of her, police said Wednesday.
Both women were killed in the bizarre accident on Tuesday after the 74-year-old slipped while collecting clothes from a drying rack outside her flat, a common sight in the densely populated city of seven million.
The elderly woman fell from her 27th-floor flat and landed directly on top of Chan Kwai-mui, 51.
In 2007, Chan was left a widow when a crane collapsed at a construction site, killing her husband and another worker.
“She had just managed to get over the death of her husband,” local media quoted Chan’s neighbour as saying.
–Agencies