Hong Kong police search for woman after man found dead outside commercial building

Hong Kong police are searching for a Chinese woman after a man’s body was found on a chair outside a commercial building in Tsim Sha Tsui early on Thursday.Officers also arrested a 28-year-old bar staff member and charged him with illegally handling a corpse. He told police he had helped the woman move the body to the car park.Police said they received a report at about 1.40am on Thursday of an unconscious person on a chair in a motorcycle car park outside K11 Art Mall. Paramedics pronounced a 48-year-old man dead at the scene.A source familiar with the matter said the arrested employee had claimed to be a passer-by, but further investigation showed he had found the man inside a toilet cubicle at an upstairs bar on Carnarvon Road.“He, together with the wanted woman, moved the deceased to the motorcycle parking spaces outside K11,” the source added.A male bar staff member has been charged after helping a woman move the man’s body. Photo: Dickson LeeThe man claimed he did not know the woman. Her relationship with the deceased is unclear.The woman was described as a Chinese national in her thirties, with a slim build and long black hair, the source said. She is about 1.6 metres (5.2 feet) tall and was wearing a black T-shirt, black trousers and a white cap.