AT least five people are dead and another 41 injured after a fire at a residential building in Jordan on Wednesday morning.
Reports said that a Filipina working in the area was injured.
The fire broke out at the building New Lucky House at around 8 am, with the fire raised to a number three alarm
It is understood that the fire started at a gym on the first floor of the building and was brought under control an hour and a half later.
Residents of the building were seen waving towels at the windows signaling for help as firefighters battle the blaze. Sources said a man had fallen from a height.
One resident living on the fifth floor said the hallway was already filled with smoke when he noticed the fire, and he could not see the exit sign.
Another resident, Darrin, told reporters that he’d climbed out of his window to be rescued, but then decided against waiting and headed for the stairwell instead.
“People were screaming, somebody was on the ground in the hall,” he said.
“It got so much smoke in my room, I said I wasn’t going to make it in there… I kept going and I finally got to the other side of the building and the stairwell, and I came down.”
All lanes of the Hung Hom-bound Jordan Road were sealed off by the Transport Department, while the MTR closed Exit B1 at Jordan Station, which is next to the building.
