A contractor has admitted to negligence in relation to water tank problems during the devastating Tai Po fire in Hong Kong. The public hearing, now in its sixth day, will focus on the fire alarm system's deactivation and its impact on the affected housing estate. The investigation aims to uncover the causes of the deadliest blaze in decades.

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Public hearings by a judge-led independent committee investigating Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in decades have entered their sixth day and will continue to focus on the deactivation of the fire alarm system and its impact on the ravaged Wang Fuk Court housing estate. Chung Kit-man, director and engineer of Victory Fire Engineering, the contractor responsible....