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2023-02-03T03:42:07.053Z


An arson case occurred in Hoi Lai Village, Cheung Sha Wan in the early morning, and a lift was damaged and blackened. According to on-site news, CCTV filmed someone pushing a trolley carrying flammable items into the building on the 12th floor, igniting it, and then leaving. lifting


An arson case occurred in Hoi Lai Village, Cheung Sha Wan in the early morning, and a lift was damaged and blackened.

According to on-site news, CCTV filmed someone pushing a trolley carrying flammable items into the building on the 12th floor, igniting it, and then leaving.

When the elevator descended to the second floor, flammable materials exploded and caught fire.

Investigators later found a seventy-year-old man on the 12th floor hanging from the iron gate of his unit and took him to the hospital.

This morning (3rd), the elevator maintenance personnel came to the scene for repairs, and the police criminal investigation team also came to the scene to understand the background of the old man. They are currently investigating whether the two cases are related.


The blackened accessories of the lift that caused the accident were thrown away.

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At the scene, there are 3 elevators in Hai Rui Building of Hai Li Estate. The elevator involved in the accident can be connected from the underground to all floors of the building. It is currently parked on the second floor for repair.

It was badly blackened during the incident, some accessories fell off, and the trolley and canned compressed gas were moved to the elevator lobby on the second floor.

At 9:30 in the morning, maintenance personnel from the elevator company came to the scene and enclosed the elevator for inspection and maintenance.

On the other side, on the 12th floor, there were uniformed police officers guarding the hanged man's residence, and members of the criminal investigation team were also present. In addition to entering the house for investigation, they also asked the neighbors about the old man's family background.

On-site news said that after the fire in the elevator was extinguished, the investigators immediately looked at the CCTV and found that someone on the 12th floor pushed a trolley containing 3 cans of flammable materials, newspapers, paper and wool into the elevator, and set fire to towels and newspapers, then dropped the trolley and left; when the elevator fell to the second floor, an explosion occurred, making two loud bangs.

The staff then went to the 12th floor to investigate, and saw an old man hanged by the iron gate in the unit, and hurried in to untie him and send him to the hospital.

Detectives investigate in the unit of the hanged man.

(Photo by Huang Xuerun)

Residents in their 70s were found to have hanged themselves during the arson investigation of the elevator at Hoi Lai Estate in Cheung Sha Wan

Source: hk1

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