Troubled Hong Kong worker in death leap onto moving van
Passenger suffers head, neck injuries as police investigate high-rise suicide at busy Causeway Bay
A man who plunged to his death on Thursday from a high-rise in the busy shopping area of Causeway Bay hit a van, inflicting head and neck injuries on a passenger.
Police believe the 24-year-old man, surnamed Lam, committed suicide yesterday because of problems at work.
The driver of the delivery van, 43, and a male passenger, 45, escaped unscathed in the incident, which occurred on Yee Wo Street at about 10.30am Thursday. The site is just a short distance from the Sogo department store.
The van was heading towards Central when Lam hit the roof of the vehicle, denting it, before bouncing onto the road, police said.
A police spokesman said he was taken unconscious to Ruttonjee Hospital in Wan Chai, where he was later declared dead.
