A local woman “fell” from a residential building and died upon impact on Monday night, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday.
According to the statement, the Public Security Police (PSP) and the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre (CHCSJ) notified the Judiciary Police at 23:05 p.m. on Monday that a woman had died in a “fall” from a flat near Rua dos Hortelãos (菜園路) in Areia Preta district. The bureau requested PJ officers go to the scene to investigate.
The deceased is a young female resident of Macau.
According to initial investigations, the victim “fell” from the balcony of a nearby building. The incident also caused damage to a number of motorbikes parked on the street below.
The case has tentatively been classified as a body-discovery case, and the exact cause of death has yet to be confirmed by forensic examination, the statement said.
Body found floating in Nam Van Lake
A dead body was found floating in Nam Van Lake yesterday morning, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday.
According to the statement, the Fire Services Bureau (CB) notified the Judiciary Police at 8:58 a.m. yesterday that a dead male body had been retrieved from Nam Van Lake (南灣湖). The bureau requested PJ officers go to the scene to investigate.
A citizen reported at about 8:25 a.m. yesterday that what appeared to be a human body was floating in Nam Van Lake. Police arrived at the scene and found a male body floating in the lake opposite Avenida Dr. Sun Yat Sen (孫逸仙大馬路). Firefighters then towed the body to the shore near Avenida de Sagres (沙格斯大馬路) in Nape, where he was certified dead.
A preliminary examination of the body did not reveal any suspicious injuries on the deceased. Apart from the body’s gender, the statement did not reveal any other details about the person.
The case has tentatively been classified as a body-discovery case and the exact cause of death is yet to be determined by a forensic examination.
Body of man who jumped from old bridge found
Meanwhile, a male body was found floating off the northern Taipa coast on Saturday morning, which was identified by the Judiciary Police later that day as the man who had jumped into the sea from the Macau-Taipa Governador Nobre de Carvalho Bridge (informally known as the “old bridge”) on Thursday last week, the Judiciary Police said in a statement on Saturday.
According to Saturday’s PJ statement, Macau Customs Service officers found the dead male body floating in the sea off the waterfront at Estrada Nordeste da Taipa (氹仔東北馬路) at 6:35 a.m. on Saturday, after which the body was transported to the waterfront next to the peninsula’s Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal for examination.
The statement said that a preliminary examination of the body by PJ officers showed that the deceased had no suspicious criminal injuries, while the exact cause of death has yet to be determined by forensic examination.
The statement identified the deceased as a middle-aged local man, who was later confirmed by the Judiciary Police, following an investigation, as the man who jumped into the sea from the old bridge on Thursday.
