Family buries victim of deadly Hong Kong Wang Fuk Court fire
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- A family gathered at Wo Hop Shek Cemetery in Hong Kong to bury a man surnamed Hung, one of 168 victims of the deadly Wang Fuk Court fire last November, which also displaced nearly 5,000 residents.
- His mother insisted on burial over cremation.
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A family buried a victim of the deadly Wang Fuk Court fire, which killed 168 people and displaced nearly 5,000 residents in Hong Kong last November.
On a drizzly, windy morning in June, a family gathered before a tombstone at Wo Hop Shek Cemetery in northern Hong Kong to bid farewell to a loved one who died in the Wang Fuk Court fire.
Beneath the muddy grave and scattered stones lies a man surnamed Hung, in his forties, among the 168 victims of the city’s deadliest fire in decades. Last November’s inferno also displaced nearly 5,000 residents.
Unlike many victims who were cremated, Hung’s family insisted on a burial.
“He passed in the blaze, and I don’t want his body to go through fire again,” said his 60-year-old mother, surnamed Yeung.
Yet only one charity was willing to help arrange the burial.
“That is the best we can do for him,” she said.
