A wheelchair-bound woman whose husband wheeled her unconscious through the Lo Wu border checkpoint after a 28-hour train journey from Xian in Shaanxi province , was declared dead at her Sheung Shui home yesterday.
The husband, Sheung Hok-hoi, 67, took his unconscious wife, Li Chun-yee, 68, home to Tin Ping Estate in Sheung Shui and called police at 8.09am. She was declared dead at the scene, police said.
It is not known if Mrs Li was dead when they arrived at the border after their journey from Xian, where they had been visiting Mr Sheung's son.
According to her husband, Mrs Li, who suffered from epilepsy and was wheelchair-bound after suffering a stroke, had fallen into a coma in Xian on Sunday, November 4. A doctor had administered an injection to her.
Before she lapsed into unconsciousness she had expressed a wish to return to Hong Kong to see her intellectually handicapped son.
Mr Sheung said he had travelled with Mrs Li, who was unconscious in her wheelchair and wearing a surgical mask, on the train journey from Xian and had arrived in Shenzhen about 5am on Wednesday.
He said she was unconscious when he pushed her through the border checkpoint and he could not say whether she was dead at the time or not.
