Hong Kong fire inquiry finds key clues of systemic failures: barrister


An independent committee investigating Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades has found “key clues” pointing to systemic loopholes that it called “unacceptable”.

At the committee’s first meeting, lasting 1½ hours on Thursday, senior counsel Victor Dawes said the body had received extensive information from relevant parties.

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