Hong Kong girl, 17, rescued from fire ‘likely caused by power bank’


A 17-year-old Hong Kong girl was rescued on Wednesday after a fire, believed to have been caused by a power bank, broke out in a flat in Tsuen Wan.

The Fire Services Department received a report at 7.59am that smoke had been seen coming from the flat at Hoi Kwai Mansion in the Riviera Gardens private housing estate.

Firefighters then broke into the flat and saved the girl, who was sent to Yan Chai Hospital in Tsuen Wan to be treated for smoke inhalation.

The department said the fire was suspected to have been triggered by a power bank and had been deemed not suspicious. - SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

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