Police are investigating a fight between two women in Chungking Mansions yesterday morning, that left one of the pair lying in a pool of blood after she was reportedly cut by a glass bottle.
According to Ming Pao, the two women were asylum seekers from Uganda, and were named Lisa, 35, and Sophie, 23.
Both women were drinking outside a restaurant on the ground floor of the Tsim Sha Tsui building at around 8am. Just before 11am, a fight suddenly broke out between the two.
It is not clear what happened, but local media reports that Sophie stabbed Lisa in the neck with a shard of glass.
Emergency services found Lisa lying in a pool of her own blood with wounds to her chest and neck, and shards of glass from a bottle on the floor.
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She was immediately taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit in Yau Ma Tei in an unconscious state.
Police meanwhile arrested Lisa at the scene on suspicion of wounding, and she was also taken to hospital for examination after she complained of feeling unwell. She also had a wound on her finger.
Chungking Mansions, once described as “the world’s most globalised building”, is known for offering cheap accommodation and is home, or a gathering point, for many refugees and asylum seekers.
