Off-duty police inspector dies after fall from columbarium at Pok Fu Lam Cemetery

An off-duty police inspector died after falling from a height at the Pok Fu Lam Cemetery columbarium on Monday afternoon (Jul 13).

Police received a report at around 3pm that a 40-year-old woman was found unconscious at the junction of Consort Rise and Victoria Road in Pok Fu Lam. She was suspected to have fallen from Columbarium No. 11 at the Hong Kong Chinese Christian Churches Union Pok Fu Lam Cemetery.

Rescue personnel arrived at the scene and confirmed the woman was dead. Police are investigating the cause of the fall.

Sources at the scene said the deceased was an off-duty female police inspector. She was also understood to have suffered from postnatal depression.

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