Residents of luxury Hong Kong high-rise terrified by falling panes of glass
In two separate incidents at a luxury high-rise in Ap Lei Chau, giant windows have fallen out of flats and plummeted to the ground below
Residents in a luxury complex in Ap Lei Chau have threatened to withhold their rental payments in protest at two incidents within a week in which window panes fell from the building.
In the first instance, a resident of the Larvotto complex who was sitting at home in Tower 1 last Wednesday saw a large glass pane fall from the 31st floor past her window, damaging two cars that were parked on Praya Road.
She called her neighbour, who was arriving home with her two-year-old daughter.
"In the taxi, I saw that the road near the entrance of the building was completely covered in glass," said the neighbour.
"The security guards waved us away and told us to use the underground entrance. If we had arrived home five minutes earlier, we could have been killed," she said.
On Sunday, residents from Tower 3 said they were evacuated from the swimming pool when another pane fell near the pool.
"We heard a loud shatter and bang, and when we asked what was wrong, the management said only that there was a problem with a window," said one resident.
