Woman plunges to death from Hong Kong hotel pool deck, injuring 7 others

American woman, 69, falls from 29th floor of Hotel Indigo in Wan Chai, leaving 74-year-old seriously injured and six others hurt

An American woman has died after plunging from a Hong Kong hotel’s 29th-floor pool deck, injuring seven people on the ground floor, one seriously.

The 69-year-old, a US passport holder who had reportedly suffered from depression and stopped taking medication in March, was staying at Hotel Indigo on Queen’s Road East in Wan Chai with her husband, a police source said.

Her husband reportedly left the hotel at about 8am to see a doctor. The woman went to the pool deck and plunged to her death shortly after 9am.

A 74-year-old local woman was struck and taken to Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam, where she remained in intensive care.

The impact also shattered glass panels near the lobby entrance, with shards injuring six others, including the 74-year-old woman’s 77-year-old sister, as they helped a friend check out.

The others injured were a 10-year-old boy and his 40-year-old mother from mainland China; another Chinese woman, 41, and her eight-year-old son; and an 89-year-old American tourist who is the friend of the seriously injured woman and her sister.