A 58-year-old Hong Kong woman by accident set her flat on fire on Friday morning when she was using a gas blow torch for cooking, causing injury to herself , other occupants and also killing four cats, the report said.
The incident happened at Tung Chung’s Yu Tai Court on Lantau Island at around 6.22 a.m., police said.
Police received a distress call from the woman who said her kitchen's cooking appliance was on fire.
According to the police, the investigation discovered that the woman used a gas blowtorch to cook and it accidentally caught fire, causing a fire outbreak in her apartment.
The report from the Fire Services Department said that the woman had second-degree burns across her body.
She was rushed by the paramedic to Princess Margaret Hospital in Lai Chi Kok for treatment while the other injured female occupants who were said to have been harmed by the smoke inhalation from the fire are being treated at North Lantau Hospital for smoke inhalation.
The report said four cats were found unconscious in the operation as well and all efforts to revive them by the responded Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals were abortives. They were unfortunately dead, the Society spokesperson said.
The firemen extinguished the blaze not too long after 7 am while the case was still under investigation, police said.
香港女子不慎用噴燈引發寓所起火 致3人受傷4隻貓死亡
報道稱，週五早上，一名 58 歲的香港婦女在使用燃氣噴燈做飯時意外點燃了自己的公寓，導致自己和其他住戶受傷，並殺死了四隻貓。
事件於早上6時22分左右在大嶼山東湧裕泰苑發生。
警方接到女子的求救電話，表示她廚房的炊具著火了。
警方稱，調查發現，該名女子使用燃氣噴燈做飯，不慎起火，導致她的公寓起火。
消防處的報告稱，女子全身二級燒傷。
她被醫護人員緊急送往荔枝角瑪嘉烈醫院接受治療，而其他據稱因吸入火災煙霧而受傷的女住戶則因吸入煙霧而在北大嶼山醫院接受治療。
報導稱，行動中還發現四隻貓失去知覺，防止虐待動物協會採取的所有救活措施都告失敗。 該協會發言人表示，他們不幸身亡。
警方稱，上午 7 點後不久，消防員將大火撲滅，而案件仍在調查中。
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