Overview
- Police received multiple calls around 8:04 a.m. reporting thick smoke from an upper-floor unit in Mei Yu House at Shek Kip Mei Estate in Kowloon.
- Firefighters found a male resident inside the affected flat and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
- More than 200 residents evacuated, with reports saying over 250 self-evacuated and 22 were led out by firefighters and accommodated at a nearby school.
- Paramedics treated several people for suspected smoke inhalation, with local reports citing three women sent to Caritas Medical Centre and other accounts saying eight people were hospitalized, including two in serious condition.
- The fire was extinguished, the exterior wall of the flat was left heavily blackened, and a section of Wai Chi Street was cordoned off during the operation.