Mother and her two children die in suspected murder-suicide in Hong Kong after authorities alerted to leaking gas

A Hong Kong woman and her two children died after being found in a flat with a gas leak in a suspected murder-suicide on Sunday.

The mother, 32, and her children, aged six and 10, were found unconscious inside the 20th-floor flat in Lotus House at So Uk public housing estate in Cheung Sha Wan, police said. The mother was taken to Princess Margaret Hospital, and the children were rushed to Caritas Medical Centre. They were later declared dead.