Search back on for Hong Kong hiker missing for 11 days, as 84 personnel scour country park after departure of Typhoon Saola
- Fire Services Department says it relaunched its rescue efforts to find Ning Kwok-leung on Saturday evening after authorities lowered No 8 typhoon warning
- Ning was reported missing on August 23, after telling family he was going om solo hike on West Buffalo Hill, located between Sha Tin and Sai Kung
The Fire Services Department told the Post on Sunday that it had relaunched efforts to find Ning Kwok-leung on Saturday evening at 5pm after authorities lowered a No 8 typhoon warning.
A spokesman for the department said it had deployed 50 people, including members of the mountain search and rescue team and a support unit.
A search dog and a drone had also been deployed, the spokesman said.
The search was focused on the Buffalo Hill and Mui Tsz Lam areas of the Ma On Shan Country Park, he said.
A spokesman for the Civil Aid Service confirmed that it had joined the search with a team of 34 people at 9.40am on Sunday morning.
He said the team would do its utmost to search for Ning, and they hoped he was still alive.
The search was called off on Thursday at 9pm because of the incoming typhoon, the first to trigger a No 10 warning in five years.