Prayers and respects as thousands mourn victims of Tai Po housing estate fire in Hong Kong
A queue of mourners waiting to pay respects to victims of Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in seven decades grew to more than 1,000 on Sunday afternoon.
Hongkongers turned out in the thousands to mourn those who lost their lives in Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in seven decades. A queue of people waiting to lay flowers and pay their respects at a makeshift altar opposite the site of the fire in Tai Po grew to more than 1,000 on the afternoon of November 30. Operations are still underway at the Wang Fuk Court to locate some 150 people who are still unaccounted for four days after a fire engulfed seven of the eight blocks in the housing estate. On Sunday morning, some 200 people, mostly domestic workers on their designated weekly day off, gathered in the city’s Central district for a community prayer service. Domestic workers from Indonesia and the Philippines are among the nearly 150 people confirmed dead.