Hong Kong - A 28-year-old woman was being questioned by police Monday after the body of a newborn was found suspended on a clothes-drying rack outside a block of flats in Hong Kong. A horrified resident called police Sunday evening after discovering the baby's body outside a flat in a high-rise block in the city's Ma On Shan district.
Door-to-door checks were made, and a woman living in a higher floor in the same block was arrested on suspicion of giving birth and then throwing the newborn from her apartment, a police spokesman said.
The baby's umbilical cord was still attached and a post-mortem was being conducted Monday to establish the cause of death, the spokesman said.
The incident followed a number of cases in Hong Kong in recent years in which young mothers have kept their pregnancies secret, then thrown newborns to their deaths from high-rise apartment blocks.
