{"id":43579,"date":"2025-11-27T14:34:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hong-kong-fire-police-blame-construction-firms-gross-negligence-as-death-toll-rises-to-55\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:34:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:04:43","slug":"hong-kong-fire-police-blame-construction-firms-gross-negligence-as-death-toll-rises-to-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/hong-kong-fire-police-blame-construction-firms-gross-negligence-as-death-toll-rises-to-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong fire: police blame construction firm\u2019s \u2018gross negligence\u2019 as death toll rises to 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nshorts-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nshorts-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-headline\">Hong Kong fire: police blame construction firm\u2019s \u2018gross negligence\u2019 as death toll rises to 55<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-summary\">Three construction industry employees arrested after police allege unsafe scaffolding materials may have been behind fire\u2019s rapid spreadHong Kong fire \u2013 latest updatesHow the fire unfolded \u2013 visual guideHong Kong police have alleged unsafe scaffolding and foam materials used during maintenance work may have been behind the rapid spread of a devastating fire at a group of residential tower blocks that has killed at least 55 people and left more than 250 missing.Firefighters were still battling to reach residents who may be trapped on the upper floors of the Wang Fuk Court housing complex on Thursday due to the intense heat and thick smoke generated by the fire. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2025\/nov\/27\/hong-kong-fire-tai-po-police-blame-construction-company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nshorts-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-audio-section\" style=\"margin-top:15px;padding:10px;background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:5px\"><strong>Listen:<\/strong> <audio controls style=\"width:100%;margin:10px 0\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&#038;tl=en&#038;client=tw-ob&#038;q=Three+construction+industry+employees+arrested+after+police+allege+unsafe+scaffolding+materials+may+have+been+behind+fire%E2%80%99s+rapid+spreadHong+Kong+fire+%E2%80%93+latest+updatesHow+the+fire+unfolded+%E2%80%93+vis\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#0073aa;text-decoration:none\">\u2193 Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Hong Kong fire: police blame construction firm\u2019s \u2018gross negligence\u2019 as death toll rises to 55 Three construction industry employees arrested after police allege unsafe scaffolding materials may have been behind fire\u2019s rapid spreadHong Kong fire \u2013 latest updatesHow the fire unfolded \u2013 visual guideHong Kong police have alleged unsafe scaffolding and foam materials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43580,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43579\/revisions\/43580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}