Published: 5:51pm, 5 Nov 2025Updated: 5:55pm, 5 Nov 2025
A Hong Kong construction worker was killed on Wednesday morning after a wall collapsed during demolition work at a village house in Yuen Long, as labour authorities stepped in to investigate the incident.
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Police said they received a call at 10.58am that the perimeter wall of a house on Shan Pui Road had collapsed.
The wall, measuring about 2 metres (6.5 ft) high, 8 metres long and 1 metre wide, had collapsed during demolition work and crushed a female worker in her forties.
She was pulled from the rubble by rescue workers and rushed to Pok Oi Hospital in Yuen Long but was pronounced dead at 12.46pm.
Police said the case has been classified as an industrial accident.
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The Labour Department said it was investigating the fatal accident and had deployed staff to the scene upon receiving the report.