An elderly man is believed to have killed his neighbour with a hammer and a knife before setting the victim’s room alight and jumping to his death from a window on Monday night, Hong Kong police said.
The apparent murder-suicide came to light at 11.53pm as the subdivided cubicle burst into flames in the top-floor flat of a six-storey tenement block on Tai Nan Street in Sham Shui Po.
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