Originally posted by twiceAweek at 30-1-2010 14:10
I wonder if the walk up girls were there at that time and if they had any clients with them ? ...
Clearly they were:-
SCMP article ... The prostitute followed her down the stairs, but when she reached the bottom, there was a huge bang as the building began to collapse. "I froze, but the owner of the CD shop next door grabbed me and pulled me into the store," said Chan. "He saved my life, but I never saw the prostitute again." Hers may be one of the bodies entombed beneath the rubble.
1:45 is peak time for walkups.
Sounds like they didn't get much warning:-
The first warnings came about 10 to 15 minutes before the five-storey, 55-year-old building collapsed. Business owners on the other side of the street saw five to six workers who had been renovating a shop on the ground floor run from the building - yelling for passers-by to keep away and call police.
... fire engines arrived, responding to a 999 call some three minutes earlier, from a bus passenger who had seen the screaming woman.
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