Hong Kong fire: how unheeded warnings may have lead to disaster
By Friday, the death toll in the Hong Kong apartment complex inferno had reached 128 with many more people unaccounted for.
A blaze that began in one 32-storey apartment block on Wednesday quickly spread to seven of the eight towers in the densely populated complex. So how did one of the city’s deadliest ever blazes spread so quickly.
The Kwong Fuk Estate, a public housing development, was undergoing refurbishment and the buildings were covered in bamboo scaffolding and netting. New cladding had been installed and now that the rescue operation is over, attention is turning on investigating…
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