Hong Kong man, 26, falls to death from flat after ‘leaning out of window to retrieve wireless earphone’


Man’s relative heard him say ‘I’m not jumping’ when he was leaning out window, according to police. Initial investigation shows 26-year-old construction worker slipped and fell. — SCMP

A Hong Kong man, 26, fell to his death on Tuesday after he was thought to have leaned out of his fourth-floor flat to retrieve a wireless earphone on a window ledge.

Emergency personnel were called to Western district at 12.18am after the man, surnamed Fan, fell from the five-storey building on Eastern Street, landing near the pavement.

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