100 injured in high-speed ferry accident in Hong Kong
At least 100 people have been injured in an incident in which a high-speed ferry traveling from Hong Kong to Macau crashed into an unknown object in the water.
At around 6:00 pm local time (10:00 GMT) on Sunday, police received a call that a high-speed ferry carrying 163 passengers and 11 crew had slammed into an “unidentified object” south of Lantau Island.
“So far it is understood around 100 people have been injured,” a government spokesman said in a statement.
Television footage showed that the first group of passengers to be rescued by marine police vessels reached the Central Ferry Piers at around 8:30 pm. Some were wearing oxygen masks as they were lifted into ambulances and taken to hospital.
“Some people sustained injuries to their jaws, arms and legs,” one passenger said on the pier in Central Ferry Piers after being rescued. “Some could not even move. The lights suddenly went out. It was chaotic at first but then the passengers managed to calm down soon. Everyone was bleeding. I was injured on my forehead, arms and legs.”
According to local media, a large rescue operation had been launched involving air services, marine police, the fire department and some 20 ambulances, before the boat was towed back to Hong Kong.
In another incident in February last year, a cross-border jetfoil carrying more than 80 airport-bound passengers from the mainland collided with a container ship in thick fog off Tuen Mun near the New Territories, Hong Kong.
The safety of Hong Kong’s waters was called into question after a fatal 2012 crash in which 39 people were killed when a high-speed ferry collided with a pleasure boat near Lamma Island.
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