More than 150 residents evacuated after ‘candle’ sparks fire in Hong Kong flat

More than 150 residents have been evacuated from a Hong Kong housing estate in Tsuen Wan after a fire broke out in a flat, less than 24 hours after a separate blaze in a Sham Shui Po residential block resulted in one death. Police received a report at 2.22am on Monday that a flat on the 33rd floor of Tsuen Wan Centre’s Tai Yuan House had caught fire, with thick smoke billowing out of the building. Firefighters broke down the door of the flat at 98 Tsuen King Circuit and rescued a 63-year-old...