As apartment complex still blazes more than 24 hours after fire began, police suspect cause is owing to ‘grossly negligent’ action
As apartment complex still blazes more than 24 hours after fire began, police suspect cause is owing to ‘grossly negligent’ action
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More than 24 hours after the first tower caught fire, the Hong Kong residential complex was still burning. Fire crews blasted water from cherrypickers at the mid-level floors, but above that, the fires were roaring out of reach.
Wang Fuk Court, in the northern Hong Kong district of Tai Po, was home to about 4,800 people. The eight-tower complex had been under renovation for years, clad in bamboo scaffolding and mesh.
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