Mother arrested after girl, 4, dies in apparent fall from Hong Kong flat

A mother has been arrested for negligence after her four-year-old girl died from an apparent fall from a flat at a Hong Kong housing estate.

Emergency services were alerted at 6.15pm on Monday by a man who saw the unconscious child lying outside Hong Wo House at Wo Che Estate in Sha Tin.

Authorities believed she had fallen from a flat.

Emergency personnel arrived and found the girl unconscious. She was rushed to Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin but was later pronounced dead.

Her 34-year-old mother, who was not at home when the incident happened, was later arrested for child neglect.

Police cordoned off the scene and launched an investigation.