‘She kept crying for me to rescue her’: victims’ families mourn fallen in Hong Kong

The eight milk tea-coloured towers of Wang Fuk Court were special sentinels to many locals in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district. Residents say that whenever they saw the blocks emerging into view on the northern-bound left side of Tolo Highway on their daily commute after work, they knew they were back home. Home was their idyllic estate with its winding bicycle lanes and a canal bisecting it, far from the frenzy of Kowloon. But now the landmark is blanketed by black soot, battered bamboo and frayed...