The past 24 hours has seen at least four accidents in Sai Kung East Country Park reported to police. Last night (14/4) three were reported near the East Dam of High Island Reservoir. This afternoon nine people were rescued off Bate Head (Tuen Tsui).
At 3:00 pm this afternoon, the police received a report from a woman, saying that her son and friends were swimming off a rocky beach near Tuen Tsui (Bate Head), Sai Kung, and that his friends could not swim back to the shore and needed rescuing.
Preliminary accounts note that nine people were swimming off the rocky shore at Tuen Tsui, but they were trapped by the rising water. Marine police sped to the area to rescue them. One of them was in bad shape and sent to hospital. Five of them were picked up by the police and dropped at Wong Shek Pier. The other three had to remain on the rocks as a helicopter was needed to rescue them. Everyone is now safe.
Just before midnight last night a 54-year-old man accidentally fell three metres from the East Dam at High Island Reservoir and hurt his foot. When the ambulance arrived, the man had already climbed back to a safe place and refused to be sent to hospital. Finally he was persuaded and sent to Tseung Kwan O Hospital for treatment.
A few minutes later a man fell over while playing with two female friends near the toilet at East Dam. He screamed for help, and a nearby camper called the police. The man and his two friends then took a taxi, presumably to hospital.
Around 12:30 am police again reported that someone had fallen into the dam. Fire and ambulance crew arrived and found nothing. The case was classified as a malicious false report.
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