Tai Po fire inquiry: 91 among 168 victims died from inhaling smoke, mass casualties ‘totally avoidable’

The high death toll resulting from last November’s Tai Po blaze was “totally avoidable,” experts have concluded. A public inquiry has heard that more than half of the 168 victims died from smoke inhalation, and that fire alarms had been turned off due to human error. The independent committee investigating the city’s deadliest fire in […]

By Hans Tse