Hong Kong’s Shek O isolated from city for second time in a week after heavy rain shuts down main road into rural community

By Jeffie Lam, Oscar Liu and Connor Mycroft

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Residents in Hong Kong’s Shek O were on Thursday morning cut off from the city for the second time in a week, after heavy rain shut down the only access road for the rural community.

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