HONG KONG: Twenty-five people were injured when a passenger jet from South Africa to Hong Kong hit turbulence on Wednesday, police said, with two men seriously hurt and hospitalized in the southern Chinese city.

Local television images showed ambulances on the tarmac at Hong Kong’s airport taking away the injured, who were on a South African Airways jet from Johannesburg which landed at around 12:30 p.m. (8:30 a.m. Manila time).

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