Bodies of 3 who died in New Year’s Day crash in Hong Kong to be sent back to Pakistan, UK

The bodies of three people who died in a horrific accident in Hong Kong on New Year’s Day will be flown back to Pakistan and the UK, a leader of the ethnic minority community in the city has said.

Alex Mohammad Ilyas, who once served as the president of the Pakistan Association of Hong Kong, told the Post on Thursday that transferring the bodies of the two relatives and their friend was being processed. He said the families of the victims opted to send the corpses back for funerals.

“[It is being] arranged now and it will take two to three days,” Ilyas, a To Kwa Wan Area Committee member, said after visiting the victims’ families. “The family members were emotionally unstable. They cried non-stop.”

The accident happened in the early hours of Wednesday when a taxi collided with a black private car that had the trio on the West Kowloon Highway near the Olympian City shopping centre.

The private car was destroyed in the accident and so badly wrecked that its engine and a door were thrown onto the highway.

The 65-year-old taxi driver was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving causing death and remained in police custody as of 5pm on Wednesday.