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The Garley Building fire took place on 20 November 1996 in the 16-storey Garley commercial building (Chinese: 嘉利大廈) located at 232–240 Nathan Road, Jordan, Hong Kong. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The fire caused 41 deaths and 81 injuries. [ 2 ]
A fire in a large, mostly residential building in Hong Kong on Wednesday morning killed at least five people and left another 34 injured. The blaze in the New Lucky House in the Jordan ...
The Amoycan Industrial Centre fire began on 21 June 2016 in a self-storage facility housed in an industrial building in Ngau Tau Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The fire was Hong Kong's longest-burning in two decades, and claimed the lives of two firemen.
February 3 – Shek Kong Vietnamese refugee detention centre fire, Hong Kong, killed 24 and injured 126. [76] May – Executive Council Building fire in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. September 16 – Pension de Vogel homeless hostel fire, The Hague, Netherlands, killed 11 and injured 15. November 20 – Windsor Castle fire, England.
A fire in a residential building in Hong Kong's bustling Kowloon district disrupted morning rush hour traffic on Wednesday, authorities said, in a rare incident in the global financial hub that ...
The Cornwall Court Fire (Chinese: 嘉禾大廈五級火) was a building fire incident in Hong Kong. It began in a nightclub and karaoke bar on the morning of Sunday 10 August 2008, taking the lives of four people, including two firefighters, and injuring a further 55 people.
The 1996 Garley Building fire and the January 1997 arson attack on Top One Karaoke in Tsim Sha Tsui in which 17 died and 13 were injured. [2] The Hong Kong government is placing blame on street-level hawkers for endangering lives with illegal storage of goods in the stairwells and blocking exits. [6]
On 11 November 2019, Lee Chi-cheung, a 57-year-old construction worker, was doused in flammable liquid and set on fire in Ma On Shan, Hong Kong.The immolation occurred during an altercation between Lee and a group of protesters on a walkway linking the Bayshore Towers housing complex with the Ma On Shan Public Library.