Scores of people, including infants and the elderly, remain unaccounted for a day after Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in decades ravaged Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po. Families and friends are racing against time, issuing appeals at the scene and on social media to find their loved ones.
The Post put together some of the appeals as the search and rescue operation continues, after authorities reported that 279 people were missing.
Six-month-old Ho Tsz-yan and her grandparents
Winnie Hui tells the Post that her last phone chat with her 68-year-old mother-in-law, Li Kin-yuk, was at 3.02pm on Wednesday, while Li was caring for her six-month-old baby girl Ho Tsz-yan, at her flat in Wang Cheong House.
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“[Li] said that there was smoke outside and would move from my flat numbered 2104 to another numbered 2101. But I lost contact with them ever since,” she said, adding that her father-in-law, 75, was also missing.
In her online appeal, she said that her daughter has a dark blue birthmark on her foot and expressed worry that the girl could not survive without milk for more than 24 hours.
Hannah Cheng, 5, and a domestic helper
At the fire scene, a desperate mother who lives in Wang Tai House was distributing photos of her 5-year-old daughter Hannah Cheng and domestic helper Maryan who went missing after the fire.