Elderly woman hospitalized after stove explodes in North Point

An 82-year-old woman was hospitalized as her stove exploded, blew one of the windows out of the flat, and caused a fire in North Point early Saturday morning. The incident occurred at around 5.42 am on the 20/F at Cheong Shing Mansion when the elderly woman named Lam was starting the stove to cook. The stove exploded the moment Lam started the stove, and she was immediately covered in flour. Lam was sent to Ruttonjee Hospital and was later transferred to Queen Mary Hospital. Police later seized a fallen window on the building’s podium on the second floor, the frame of which was already deformed.