Two men have been injured by a bamboo stick that fell from scaffolding outside an industrial building in Hong Kong, with one left bleeding from the incident.
Hong Kong police said they were alerted shortly before 10am on Saturday about a man being hit on the forehead by a bamboo stick that fell from scaffolding outside the 16-storey Wong King Industrial Building in San Po Kong.
One man’s forehead was struck by the bamboo and left bleeding, while another on-site reported chest pains to officers. Both men were sent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Jordan.
“Both men said they were walking past [the site] and were hit by the bamboo,” a force spokesman said.
The victims remained conscious after their injuries.
Wong King Industrial Building is a 55-year-old mixed-use building completed in 1970, according to property agency Centaline Commercial’s records.
