HONG KONG, Nov 8, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – A Hong Kong student who fell from a
multi-storey car park while police and protesters were clashing last weekend
has died, hospital officials said Friday, in a development likely to raise
tensions after months of violent rallies in the city.
Alex Chow, a computer science undergraduate of the University of Science
and Technology, was certified dead at 8.09am on Friday, Queen Elizabeth
Hospital confirmed.
Chow was taken to hospital in an unconscious state in the early hours of
Monday morning following late-night clashes between police and protesters in
Tseung Kwan O district.
He was found lying unconscious in a pool of blood inside a car park that
police had fired tear gas into after protesters hurled objects from the
building.
The precise circumstances of how Chow came to be injured are unclear but he
has been embraced by the five-month-old protest movement.