Mother in Hong Kong held after unattended son throws items from flat, damaging car

A woman in Hong Kong has been arrested on suspicion of neglect after allegedly leaving her four-year-old son home alone, during which time he threw objects from a window, damaging a parked car below. Police said on Wednesday that they received a report in the early hours concerning a boy suspected of throwing plastic bottles and other items from a residential unit on Tai Nan Street in Sham Shui Po. A video widely shared online shows an object being thrown from the building’s fifth floor, hitt...

By Edith Lin