A 46-year-old local woman was found dead in a hotel room in the central district in Macau, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said in a message yesterday.
At around 10:50 p.m. yesterday, the statement said, the Judiciary Police received a call from the Public Security Police (PSP) and Fire Services Bureau (FSM) informing them that a female body had been found in a hotel room in the city centre.
After a preliminary examination of the body, the statement said, PJ officers found “unusual” wounds on the victim’s head.
As the officers found the cause of the woman’s death suspicious, they “immediately launched a serious crime scene examination and investigation”, the statement said.
According to the statement, the Judiciary Police (PJ) have classified the case as homicide.
According to Chinese-language media reports, the victim was found in a guesthouse called Pensão Residencial Florida in Beco do Paralelo, a blind alley next to the city’s main thoroughfare, Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro. The guesthouse’s Chinese name, Fu Dou, means “rich metropolisis”.
Judiciary Police (PJ) vehicles are parked in Beco do Paralelo yesterday, a blind alley next to Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro, in front of Pensão Residencial Florida, a guesthouse where the homicide victim was found earlier in the day.
– Photo courtesy of TDM
