Hong Kong police have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of an elderly man who was found collapsed inside the stairwell of a North Point building.
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The force received a report from a security guard at 3pm on Wednesday that the 75-year-old man was discovered lying unconscious in the 10th-floor stairwell of Ming Sau Building on Chun Yeung Street.
Paramedics transported him to Ruttonjee Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
The man, reportedly not a resident of the building, had lived in Hing Tung Estate in Sai Wan Ho.
An Eastern district crime squad has taken over the investigation.
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