French extreme sports enthusiast plunges to death

Daredevil no more: A file photo of Lucidi posing for a photo on Instagram in 2016, showing him scaling a high-rise building. — The Straits Times/ANN

HONG KONG: A 30-year-old French national with a history of climbing high-rise buildings across the world died after falling from a high-rise residential building in Hong Kong.

Remi Lucidi fell off one of the buildings in the Tregunter Tower complex on Thursday, and was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Friday.