HONG KONG - A Bank of America Merrill Lynch employee has been arrested in Hong Kong in connection with the murder of two women, a source with direct knowledge of the situation.
Hong Kong police said a 29-year-old foreign man had been detained after two women were found dead in an apartment in Wan Chai, a central city district known for its nightlife, on Saturday morning. Police declined to identify the man or give his nationality.
The man has not been charged.
Britain`s Foreign Office in London said a British national had been arrested in Hong Kong, without specifying the nature of any suspected crime.
The body of one of the two victims had been hidden in a suitcase on a balcony, while the other, a foreign woman of between 25 and 30, was found lying inside the apartment with wounds to her neck and buttocks, police said in a statement.
The man had called police in the early hours of Saturday and asked them to investigate the case, police said.
A Bank of America Merrill Lynch spokeswoman in New York declined to comment.
Hong Kong`s Apple Daily newspaper said the suspect had taken about 2,000 photographs and some video footage of the victims after the killings including close-ups of their wounds.
The apartment where the bodies were found is on the 31st floor in a building popular with financial professionals, where average rents are about HK$30,000 (nearly $4,000) a month.
A woman who lives down the corridor from the flat said she had seldom seen anyone come and go from the apartment.
Violent crime is a rare in Hong Kong and the city`s homicide rate is one of the lowest in the world.
In one of Hong Kong`s most talked-about killings, the so-called "milkshake murder", a Merrill Lynch banker was clubbed to death in 2003 by his wife, who drugged him beforehand by serving him a milkshake full of sleeping pills.