A four-year-old boy died after torrential rain triggered floods and landslides on the Kowloon peninsula yesterday.
Most landslides occurred in Kwai Chung and north Kowloon, where more than 300 millimetres of rain was recorded over 24 hours.
In Kwai Chung, a 20-metre-by-15-metre hillside collapsed on top of a squatter hut in Kau Wa Keng Upper Village at about 7 am.
Two children, their parents and another couple were trapped as mud cascaded down the slope, smashing into their wood-and-iron hut.
Chung Ka-kit and his sister, 8, were buried under debris and had to be dug out by fire officers. An ambulance that had been called was held up in a traffic jam and the boy was sent by taxi to Yan Chai Hospital, where he was certified dead.
The hospital said Ka-kit had died of suffocation after being crushed beneath furniture.