At least 100 injured in Hong Kong ferry accident: authorities

      

OCT 25, 201511:57 PM

[HONG KONG] At least 100 people were injured late on Sunday when a high-speed ferry travelling from Macau to Hong Kong hit an "unidentified object" in the water, according to authorities.

Pictures showed wounded people being stretchered off the boat, some wearing oxygen masks, onto a pier in Hong Kong's central financial district to waiting ambulances.

Authorities received a call at around 6:00pm local time (1000 GMT) warning the ferry carrying 163 passengers and 11 had lost power after an accident off Siu A Chau, near the larger island of Lantau.

"So far it is understood around 100 people have been injured," a government spokesman said in a statement emailed to AFP.