Dead body found case in Tsuen Wan reclassified as murder
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Police today (January 12) reclassified a dead body found case in Tsuen Wan early yesterday morning (January 11) as murder.

About 12.30am yesterday, Police received a report that a woman was found lying outside a flat at 87 Chuen Lung Street.

The woman, in her mid-thirties, was certified dead by ambulancemen at the scene. No identity document was found on the deceased.

A post-mortem examination was conducted today and revealed that she died of suffocation.

Active investigations by Regional Crime Unit of New Territories South are proceeding.

Police Report No. 13
Issued by PPRB

Ends/Monday, January 12, 2009
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