{"id":28715,"date":"2015-03-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2015\/03\/20150325_113853.shtml"},"modified":"2015-03-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T04:00:00","slug":"two-die-in-mong-kok-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2015\/03\/25\/two-die-in-mong-kok-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Two die in Mong Kok fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/categories\/law_order\/thumbnail\/fire.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A 91-year-old woman and a 61-year-old man died in a fire in their Mong Kok flat last night.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out on the 12<sup>th<\/sup> floor of the Cosmopolitan Centre at 760 Nathan Road at about 11:30pm yesterday and was put out just after midnight. Firefighters found the pair unconscious in the 7-metre by 10-metre flat. They were sent to Kwong Wah Hospital where they later died.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About 80 building occupants left the building on their own, while firefighters led eight others to safe places. A fireman was sent to Kwong Wah Hospital after injuring his hand while helping occupants leave the building.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were no suspicious circumstances concerning the cause of the blaze. An investigation is underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/categories\/law_order\/thumbnail\/fire.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A 91-year-old woman and a 61-year-old man died in a fire in their Mong Kok flat last night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out on the 12<sup>th<\/sup> floor of the Cosmopolitan Centre at 760 Nathan Road at about 11:30pm yesterday and was put out just after midnight. Firefighters found the pair unconscious in the 7-metre by 10-metre flat. They were sent to Kwong Wah Hospital where they later died.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>About 80 building occupants left the building on their own, while firefighters led eight others to safe places. A fireman was sent to Kwong Wah Hospital after injuring his hand while helping occupants leave the building.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were no suspicious circumstances concerning the cause of the blaze. An investigation is underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28716,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28715\/revisions\/28716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}