Girl survives after sleepwalking off roof

A 16-year-old girl escaped serious injury yesterday after sleepwalking on to the roof of her building, climbing a metre-high fence and falling three storeys.

Wong Yin-yin had disappeared from the bottom bunk of a bed in her parents' second-floor flat in Sunlight Garden, Tat Wan Road, Tai Po, when her 11-year-old brother awoke at about 6am.

He told his parents and they started to look for her. They found the main door locked from the inside, so they went up to the roof.

'When we looked down from the roof, we saw her lying on the ground but still conscious,' her mother said.

Yin-yin told her mother: 'I can't remember what happened to me. I just woke up and found myself lying on the floor outside the house.' She said she did not know how she had reached the roof and fallen.

The Form Four student broke her right leg and suffered head and facial injuries.