Hong Kong - A retired Hong Kong sailor leapt to his death after killing his wife with a hammer, knife and chisel, police said Wednesday.

The 70-year-old is believed to have jumped from the window of his 10th-floor window after attacking his 72-year-old wife.

His body was found lying on a third-floor podium of his apartment building late Monday night.

Police broke into his flat, and found his wife dead lying in a pool of blood and the three bloodstained tools close by. Both husband and wife were declared dead at the scene by paramedics.

Police said the case had been classified as a murder-suicide. (dpa)