Elderly woman found dead after blaze in cluttered Wong Tai Sin flat

The charred body of an elderly woman was found in a flat in Hong Kong’s Wong Tai Sin after a blaze broke out on Sunday morning, with officers uncovering a large amount of clutter piled up all the way to the ceiling. The Fire Services Department received a report at 8.45am on Sunday of a No 1 alarm fire at a lower-floor residential flat at Lung Kwong House in Wong Tai Sin. Firefighters arrived a few minutes later and extinguished the fire within 26 minutes, at 9.16am. Some 300 people were...

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