A photo showing a construction worker smoking on bamboo scaffolding in Hong Kong has sparked outrage online. Users are drawing comparisons between the act and the suspected cause of the city’s deadliest fire in recent decades.

An image of a Hong Kong construction worker smoking a cigarette while on bamboo scaffolding at a residential building has prompted outrage among internet users, who have drawn comparisons with the suspected cause of the city’s deadliest fire in decades. An image shared on a Facebook page called the Shau Kei Wan Sai Wan Ho Concern Group showed a worker smoking a cigarette while standing on scaffolding erected around what was identified as Tai On Building. A second worker in the same photo can be....