A 90-year-old Hong Kong woman has fallen to her death while hanging laundry from a building in North Point.
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Police said on Sunday that the elderly woman was trying to retrieve clothes pegs from a rack outside a window of her 11th-floor flat on Chun Yeung Street when she lost her balance at around 4.20pm.
A passer-by called an ambulance, but the woman was declared dead at the scene by paramedics.
Police are investigating, with a postmortem expected to confirm the cause of death.