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Hearing on deadly Tai Po fire enters second day after revelations of human failings
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This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. A public evidential hearing into a devastating fire that engulfed a residential complex in Hong Kong and killed 168 people enters its second day on Friday. Victor Dawes SC, lead barrister for an independent judge-led committee overseeing the hearing, will continue his opening speech, a day after he cited a preliminary investigation report that the tragedy was...