‘I thought of pushing wife out window’: Hong Kong fire survivors recount escape

When a Hong Kong resident surnamed Chow opened his front door at Shek Kip Mei Estate on Sunday, he was met by a dense wall of black soot. “[The smoke] was cutting my throat and nose, and my eyes won’t stop tearing,” said the man in his forties as he recounted the harrowing struggle with his wife and dogs, after a fire broke out a few doors away from his home, leaving one man dead and eight injured. As the fire erupted in a cluttered flat on the 21st floor of Mei Yue House on Sunday morning,...