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Clifford Lo

A hiker died in hospital after falling down a waterfall in a Hong Kong country park on Friday.
The woman was in Tai Mo Shan Country Park in Tai Po when the incident happened shortly before midday.
Law enforcement sources initially said the 26-year-old Filipino victim was a domestic helper before police later confirmed she worked as a customer service officer in a call centre of a finance company.
She had gone hiking with her younger sister and four friends during the Ching Ming Festival, starting at Lam Kam Road, Tai Po at about 9am. Upon reaching Ng Tung Chai Waterfall, her friends heard a loud noise and found she had fallen 15 metres and was in the water, according to police.
Her friends told police that she slipped while trying to take a selfie.

A police spokesman said she was unconscious when she was taken out of the water. She was airlifted to Tuen Mun Hospital, where she was declared dead at 1.31pm.
The Fire Services Department sent three fire engines and one ambulance. Paramedics gave first aid to the woman at the scene before she was taken to hospital, according to its spokeswoman.
Getting to the waterfalls requires a steep hike up Hong Kong’s highest peak – Tai Mo Shan. The main waterfall is 35 metres tall.
Hiker dies after collapsing near top of tallest peak in Hong Kong
Ng Tung Chai Waterfall is on one of the hiking routes listed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. The trails are grouped under four levels – easy, moderate, difficult and very difficult. The Ng Tung Chai Waterfall route is about 5km long and rated difficult.
The incident happened eight days after a man from Macau accompanying a Hong Kong tour group in the United States fell to his death at the Grand Canyon while trying to take a selfie.
The man died at Eagle Point, a popular tourist destination, on the second day of a seven-day tour.
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More than 250 people worldwide have died taking selfies in the last eight years, according to a study by researchers associated with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, a group of public medical colleges based in New Delhi. The findings, which analysed news reports of 259 selfie-related deaths from October 2011 to November 2017, were published in the July-August 2018 edition of the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care.
According to the fire department, three hikers died and 21 were injured in Hong Kong in the first three months of this year. The department carried out 56 mountain rescue operations in the period. Figures showed the number of hiking deaths dropped to nine in 2018 from 15 in 2017 and the number of injuries also fell to 242 in 2018 from 340 the previous year.


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Filipino woman plunges to death while taking selfie at Hong Kong waterfall

A Government Flying Service helicopter lifted the woman to hospital where she died. Photo: Winson Wong

Ng Tung Chai waterfalls. Photo: handout

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The 26-year-old woman fell while hiking with friends in Tai Mo Shan Country Park around midday and was taken to hospital unconscious
Her friends told police she fell while trying to take a selfie


The 26-year-old woman fell while hiking with friends in Tai Mo Shan Country Park and was taken to hospital unconscious.


Filipino woman plunges to death while taking selfie at Hong Kong waterfall

The 26-year-old woman fell while hiking with friends in Tai Mo Shan Country Park around midday and was taken to hospital unconscious Her friends told police she fell while trying to take a selfie

The 26-year-old woman fell while hiking with friends in Tai Mo Shan Country Park around midday and was taken to hospital unconscious

Her friends told police she fell while trying to take a selfie