Hong Kong mourns firefighter killed in city’s deadliest fire in decades

HONG KONG: Hong Kongers offered flowers and bowed outside a funeral parlor on Friday to pay tribute to a firefighter who was among the 160 people killed by the city’s deadliest fire in decades. Ho Wai-ho lost his life battling the massive blaze that engulfed seven buildings of a housing complex on Nov. 26. He was 37. The fire services department has posthumously awarded him the title of senior fireman. An array of wreaths lay outside the Universal Funeral Parlour, with thank-you cards from residents put up on its wall.

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