Woman injured in apartment gas explosion
Mother and two sons escape after blast blows doors off and shatters windows
A 54-year-old woman escaped serious injuries in an explosion sparked by a gas leak at her apartment in Tuen Mun early today.
Wong Mei-yi, 54, a taxi driver, suffered minor burns to her face and hands in the blast and is in stable condition in Tuen Mun Hospital.
Police say the incident happened shortly after 4.45am when she went to prepare breakfast in the kitchen of her ground-floor flat in a three-storey block in Horizon Villa on Fuk Hang Tsuen Road.
She smelled an odour but did not realise it was a gas leak, according to a fire officer.
“The explosion occurred when she started to switch on a gas stove,” the officer said. “Domestic items in the kitchen and living room caught fire and her two sons used buckets of water to douse flames before firemen arrived.
“The force of the explosion blew off doors and shattered windows,” he said.