Hong Kong high-rise building on Fire

I wonder what started the fire. there are rumours that the fire started by cigarettes as the workers were smoking inside. However, an exploding lithium battery seems more probable, seeing that poor quality of electric vehicles in China are common. Also, with 4.500 people living there and a very old chinese population 36 deaths and 270~ people missing is hardly believable.

Nevertheless a terrible accident. 😢
 
Not looking into it deeply at all, my first reaction would be:

IMO pretty unlikely that all 6 buildings (which look like they are separated from each other) would catch fire by accident at once. Which would lead me to suspect faul play of sorts, possibly by sending a message to the Chinese/Government from the usual suspects in high places.

Having said that, it looks like the buildings are unusually built close to each other for such high buildings. Which in theory could for example mean that just one building in the middle started to burn out extremely and by that heated the next building close to it enough for it to catch fire too. And then the next building, and so on.
 
They say that the building was under renovation, that the scaffolding use was bamboo and it may have helped to propagate the fire to the whole complex. But what started it is still speculation so far.
 
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