Tai Po fire ‘a result of multiple layers of human failure’, hearing told

An independent committee investigating Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades will hear concluding remarks from the government on Thursday as the final round of hearings on the tragedy continues. The legal representative for nine residents of the fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court housing estate in Tai Po will also deliver a concluding statement before the judge-led panel on the second last session of the three-day hearing. Committee chairman Justice David Lok Kai-hong said the government’s closing...

By Leopold Chen,Brian Wong