Fire in old Hong Kong building kills at least 5, injures 43 others
- One of the victims suspected to have jumped off 16-storey building in Yau Ma Tei in a bid to escape blaze, fire services official says
- Three victims discovered in second-floor corridor, while fifth person killed was found on a staircase between seventh and eighth floors
One of the five killed was suspected to have jumped off the 16-storey building on Jordan Road in Yau Ma Tei in a bid to escape the blaze and was found on the first-floor podium, the Fire Services Department said.
Lam Kin-kwan, the Kowloon South divisional commander, said another three victims were discovered in the second-floor public corridor of New Lucky House, while the fifth person killed was found on a staircase between the seventh and eighth floors.
The three men and two women were pronounced dead at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Kwong Wah Hospital. Among the dead were Lai Ka-lun, 67, and Tsang Hing-wai, 70, both Hong Kong residents.
The other three were a man and a woman in their 20s of non-Chinese ethnicity, and a woman with limited identification details.