{"id":11537,"date":"2021-01-22T06:17:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T06:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/society\/article\/3118797\/hong-kong-refuse-worker-dies-after-falling-35-floors-down"},"modified":"2021-01-22T06:17:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T06:17:16","slug":"hong-kong-refuse-worker-dies-after-falling-35-floors-down-rubbish-chute-in-tuen-mun-residential-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/22\/hong-kong-refuse-worker-dies-after-falling-35-floors-down-rubbish-chute-in-tuen-mun-residential-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong refuse worker dies after \u2018falling 35 floors down rubbish chute\u2019 in Tuen Mun residential tower"},"content":{"rendered":"A refuse worker died on Friday after he was thought to have plunged 35 floors down a rubbish chute in a Hong Kong public housing block.Kwan Hau-kei, 58, a part-time cleaner, lay fatally injured in a bin at the bottom of the Tuen Mun residential tower for potentially several hours, before he was found and sent to hospital where he was later pronounced dead.The Labour Department has launched an investigation into the incident at King Lok House of Shan King Estate in Ming Kum Road. Police have it\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/society\/article\/3118797\/hong-kong-refuse-worker-dies-after-falling-35-floors-down\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A refuse worker died on Friday after he was thought to have plunged 35 floors down a rubbish chute in a Hong Kong public housing block.Kwan Hau-kei, 58, a part-time cleaner, lay fatally injured in a bin at the bottom of the Tuen Mun residential tower f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":773,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11578,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537\/revisions\/11578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}