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.
 
ishiki said:
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. 😢
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On thing that can be guaranteed is that Chinese Authorities will lie about the number of dead and possibly even the cause of the fire.
 
These guys have noticed as startling increase in people deliberately lighting fires in China. Usually it's factories that are the target, when the employees are fed up about not being paid.

They also have a section called 'bollard report' because the Chinese Government is forced to put bollards up particualarly around schools in order to stop disaffected (and often mentally unhinged) citizens from deliberately targetting the innocent in "crimes against society". Apparently this is the only form of protest they are 'allowed', because the Government certainly isn't listening.

What this recent fire suggests to me is that this behaviour is escalating and the citizens of China are literally burning their country to the ground. Things are at crisis point over there and of course, the Government of China is attempting to say: "Nothing to see here". It looks increasingly like people's anger is reaching boiling point.

 
Ruth said:
On thing that can be guaranteed is that Chinese Authorities will lie about the number of dead and possibly even the cause of the fire.
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Maybe, maybe not: Hong Kong is still a separate entity from mainland China, and they are still uncensored, even though they are under increasing pressure from Beijing. It also depends on whether the information released serves or not the political agenda.
 
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