Bodies of 3 who died in New Year’s Day crash in Hong Kong to be sent back to Pakistan, UK
‘The family members were emotionally unstable. They cried non-stop,’ leader of Pakistani community in Hong Kong says
The bodies of three people who died in a horrific accident in Hong Kong on New Year’s Day will be flown back to Pakistan and the UK, a leader of the ethnic minority community in the city has said.
Alex Mohammad Ilyas, who previously served as the president of the Pakistan Association of Hong Kong, told the Post on Thursday that the arrangements for transferring the bodies of the two relatives and their friend were being processed, according to the wishes of the families.
“[It is being] arranged now and it will take two to three days,” Ilyas, a To Kwa Wan Area Committee member, said after visiting the victims’ families. “The family members were emotionally unstable. They cried non-stop.”
The accident happened in the early hours of Wednesday when a taxi collided with a black private car with five people inside, including the trio, on the West Kowloon Highway near the Olympian City shopping centre.
The driver of the private car lost control and rammed into the road divider before hitting another moving taxi and three vehicles parked at the roadside.
The black car was so badly wrecked that its engine and a door were thrown onto the highway.
