Home Affairs Department ‘did its best’ on Wang Fuk Court complaints, official tells probe

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. The deputy director of the Home Affairs Department and the former head of the Housing Bureau’s Independent Checking Unit (ICU) are the latest Hong Kong officials to testify at a public hearing on Friday into the city’s deadliest blaze in decades. Their cross-examination will also conclude the fourth round of evidential hearings held by the...

By Lo Hoi-ying,Brian Wong