Hong Kong police arrest 1 more suspect in connection with death of mainland Chinese student
Hong Kong police have arrested a man at the city’s airport in connection with the death of a mainland Chinese student whose body was discovered in a Fanling village last December.
The 31-year-old Hongkonger was detained on arrival at the airport on Wednesday, bringing the number of suspects arrested over the case to five.
As of Thursday afternoon, the suspect was still being held on suspicion of preventing the lawful burial of a body.
At the centre of the case was the death of 22-year-old mainland student Xu Wenjun, who was studying for a master’s degree in the city.
Police earlier charged security guard Kwan Wing-yin, 51, and unemployed Cheng See-chung, with manslaughter and preventing the lawful burial of Xu’s body with the help of two unidentified men.
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Cheng Ka-fu, a 20-year-old student of LiPACE, a community education arm of Hong Kong Metropolitan University, was also slapped with the same charge of preventing the lawful burial of the body.
Police subsequently arrested another 25-year -old man at West Kowloon station on suspicion of being one of the two unknown men who aided in the unlawful disposal of Xu’s body.
