A man died and another was washed away by a raging river yesterday as heavy rain from Typhoon Chanthu caused widespread flooding across Hong Kong and brought chaos to roads during the evening rush hour.
A 72-year-old man was declared dead in hospital just after 6.30 pm after being plucked from his flooded home in a Sheung Shui village.
That came half an hour after a man was reported to have been carried off from a Tai Po village by a flood-swollen river.
Seventy-one other villagers there were rescued by the emergency services. Two of them needed hospital treatment.
Rescue operations were still under way late last night in the village, Sha Po Chai Tsuen on Tat Wan Road, Tai Po, which was badly hit by the storm and which is home to 3,000 people.
There was no word on the man's fate.