Hong Kong Fire Survivor's Heroic Act Mourned
Survivors of Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades mourn the woman who alerted her neighbors to the flames, but died in the tragedy. Her husband and neighbor praised her kindness, calling it a tragic fate.
Survivors of Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in decades have mourned a woman who heroically knocked on neighbours’ doors to alert them to the flames but died in the tragedy, after fire alarms at Wang Fuk Court failed to go off. Pak Shui-lin’s husband, Sdanni Yip Ka-kui, and neighbour Lam Yin-ming, both Wang Tai House residents, praised the heroine for her kindness, but said that “she did not deserve to suffer such a fate”. They made the remarks on Monday as they testified at the fifth session of an....