Hong Kong - Villagers from a hamlet in northern Hong Kong are fighting plans to build a repository for the cremated remains of people claiming the building still under construction has caused bad feng shui, a media report said Saturday.

The building containing the columbarium in Tsui Keng Lo Wai village is already half completed after being converted from several houses, the South China Morning Post said.

Speaking during a demonstration against the scheme on Friday, village representative Rico Yau said villagers plan to seek an injunction to stop the project.

One angry villager Chan Chin-fai said: "We bury our ancestors on the hillsides. How dare the developers put outsiders' niches in the middle of the village."

Chan said his children and mother had recently fallen ill and blamed the problems on bad feng shui caused by the development of the columbarium.

The government's Lands Department said it was investigating whether planning laws had been broken. The firm developing the project could not be contacted. (dpa)