A 52-year-old local woman was admitted to the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre yesterday afternoon after being hit by a metal plantstand that fell from Tak Wa Building on Avenida da Praia Grande, according to separate statements by the Fire Services Bureau (CB) and the Public Security Police (PSP).
The statements said that the accident happened in Nam Van at 12:07 p.m. yesterday, when the victim walking past the residential building sustained a bruise on her scalp. The statements noted that the victim remained conscious while she was rushed to the public hospital.
Firefighters who had arrived the scene told reporters that a plantstand fell from a flat on the building’s first floor after the flat owner had accidentally hit it.
This photo shows the metal plantstand which hit a female passer-by after falling from a first-floor residential flat in Tak Wa Building on Avenida da Praia Grande.
– Photo courtesy of TDM
