Hong Kong police have arrested two men after reclassifying an industrial accident involving a collapsed scaffolding that killed two workers and injured three others last year as manslaughter.
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A 48-year-old foreman and a 58-year-old worker, who were apprehended on Thursday and jointly charged with two counts of manslaughter over the incident in Ngau Tau Kok, were brought to the Kwun Tong Court for mention on Friday morning.
On February 20 last year, police received a report that a large scaffolding had collapsed at a construction site on Shing Fu Lane in Ngau Tau Kok.
Two female workers, aged 68 and 54, were rushed unconscious to United Christian Hospital in Kwun Tong and were certified dead on the same day.
Three other workers, a man and two women, aged between 45 and 63, were sent to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei for treatment of injuries.
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The force said its Kowloon East regional crime unit would continue to investigate.