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Man, 70s, dies after fire at Sai Ying Pun flat
Death, evacuation, location, Fire Services Department preliminary assessment and traffic diversions.
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Fire breaks out at Hang Fai Building in Sai Ying Pun leaving elderly man dead and sixty residents evacuated
Independent report of police call, death and evacuation.
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Elderly man pulled unconscious from flat after fire in Sai Ying Pun
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Hong Kong Fire Services Department Light Rescue Unit on scene
Illustrative image by thkwok_dennis, CC BY-SA 2.0; cropped to wide ratio.
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The Standard and Dim Sum Daily give different times for when the man was pronounced dead; no death time is stated. The kitchen origin is preliminary. Traffic reopening was not established. The photo is illustrative, taken years before this fire.
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A man in his 70s died after a fire broke out in a flat at Hang Fai Building in Sai Ying Pun on Monday evening, according to local news reports. About 60 residents evacuated the building.
Police received a report of the fire at the Pok Fu Lam Road building at 8:57 p.m. Firefighters found the man unconscious in the flat and took him to Queen Mary Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Standard reported that crews extinguished the fire at about 9:54 p.m.
The Fire Services Department believes the fire began in the flat’s kitchen, possibly during cooking, and does not regard it as suspicious, The Standard reported. The cause of the blaze and the man’s death remain under investigation.
Pok Fu Lam Road was temporarily closed in both directions between Third Street and Queen’s Road West while emergency crews worked, and several Citybus routes were diverted.