12 dead as Hong Kong’s Tai Po blaze raised to maximum threat level

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Twelve people including a firefighter have been killed and at least 16 others are critically injured in a fiery blaze ravaging Hong Kong’s Tai Po neighbourhood, as flames lash over bamboo scaffolding across all eight blocks of a housing estate with multiple other residents trapped inside. The other 11 who were killed were eight women and three men, according...