Wang Fuk Court Fire: 168 Lives Lost in Hong Kong Tragedy
168 dead in a single residential courtyard. The Wang Fuk Court fire tore through Tai Po's densely packed housing blocks with terrifying speed, trapping residents who had nowhere to go. Seventy-nine more survived with injuries. Emergency crews faced narrow corridors and smoke-choked stairwells — exactly the conditions Hong Kong's aging housing estates were never built to survive. And the question that followed wasn't just about this fire. It was about every building like it. Thousands still stand.
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