Minibus Plunges Into Sinkhole After Water Pipe Burst

"); jQuery("#212 h3").html("

Related News Programmes

"); });

2022-08-23 HKT 17:50

Share this story

facebook

  • Minibus plunges into sinkhole after water pipe burst

A water pipe in Tsuen Wan burst on Tuesday afternoon, flooding part of Shing Mun Road and causing a sinkhole.

A minibus became trapped in the sinkhole on Sai Lau Kok Road, but nobody was injured.

Police said they were notified about the burst at around 1pm and an area of around 40 metres by 40 metres was affected.

Officers from the Water Supplies Department were deployed to repair the underground pipe.

Water supplies to blocks 1 and 2 of Ho Fai Garden were suspended.

The Transport Department said all lanes of Sai Lau Kok Road between Shing Mun Road and Wai Tsuen Road had been closed and some bus services were being diverted.

RECENT NEWS

Tourists Can Now Pay For Public Transport Using IPhone, Apple Watch In S. Korea

International travelers in South Korea can now use their iPhone or Apple Watch to pay for public transport through the ... Read more

Hang Seng Launches NFC E-Passbook For 1+ Million Passbook Customers

Hang Seng Bank has rolled out an e-Passbook service in Hong Kong in a bid to strengthen age-friendly banking. The Hang ... Read more

Why 95% Of AI Pilots Fail In Banking And How Banks Can Get ROI

Why do so many AI pilots fail in banking even when the technology itself works? In this episode, Vincent Fong, Fintech ... Read more

Gobi Partners Invests In Transak To Expand Regulated Digital Asset Payments In Asia

Gobi Partners has announced an investment in Transak, a company that provides regulated infrastructure for converting b... Read more

UnionPay Launches Agentic Payment Framework To Standardise AI-Driven Transactions

UnionPay has officially released the Agentic Payment Open Protocol (APOP) framework, a solution for agent-based payment... Read more

Standard Chartered Launches Real-Time FPS Payments For Offshore Firms And Paytech

Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong (SCBHK) has joined the first group of banks in Hong Kong to roll out cross-border pay... Read more