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A horrified resident called police Sunday evening after discovering the baby's body outside a flat in a high-rise block in the city's Ma On Shan district.

 Door-to-door checks were made, and a woman living in a higher floor in the same block was arrested on suspicion of giving birth and then throwing the newborn from her apartment, a police spokesman said.

 The baby's umbilical cord was still attached and a post-mortem was being conducted Monday to establish the cause of death, the spokesman said.

 The incident followed a number of cases in Hong Kong in recent years in which young mothers have kept their pregnancies secret, then thrown newborns to their deaths from high-rise apartment blocks.//dpa