A 67-year-old woman died at 2.50am on 8 November after more than nine hours of resuscitation, following a fire in Tin Shui Wai the previous evening.
The fire broke out at 5.39pm on 7 November in an apartment in Tower 14 of Locwood Court, within Kingswood Villas. Firefighters extinguished it at 6.07pm.
Firefighters rescued the woman unconscious from the apartment. She had burns to both hands and her airway and was taken to Tin Shui Wai Hospital before being transferred to Tuen Mun Hospital.
About 100 residents evacuated themselves to safety. Firefighters’ preliminary inquiry suggested an aromatherapy item accidentally ignited nearby belongings. Police believed the cause was not suspicious.