HONG KONG — Hong Kong firefighters had been battling a blaze Friday at a warehouse that compelled 3,400 folks to evacuate, together with college students, police stated.
Thick smoke was seen pouring out from the constructing the place the hearth broke out round 2 p.m. on the warehouse on Fats Tseung Avenue in Cheung Sha Wan, a residential and industrial space in Kowloon, the federal government stated.
Two individuals who labored close to the location felt sick after inhaling thick smoke, and folks from 4 faculties and one residential constructing close by needed to be evacuated, police stated.
“There’s a likelihood that the variety of folks concerned within the evacuation will rise additional,” police stated. The reason for the hearth was unclear.
Officers on the scene needed to put on respiratory equipment. The federal government opened a short lived shelter at a sports activities heart for residents in want and suggested members of the general public to shut their doorways and home windows in the event that they had been being affected by the smoke and odor.
