About 240 people were evacuated from Mei Leong House in Shek Kip Mei Estate early on Tuesday morning, after a fire broke out at a flat at around midnight.

Firefighters believe the blaze started in the battery of an electric bicycle and is not suspicious.

Two women, aged 28 and 60 and who lived in other flats, were sent to the Caritas Medical Centre suffering from smoke inhalation.