Hong Kong Police Seek Men at Scene of Blaze

Hong Kong police are seeking two men captured on closed-circuit television at the scene of the Nov. 30 fire in the Mong Kok district that killed nine people and injured 34.

“These two men may provide us with information about the case, or the cause of the fire,” Brian Lowcock, the superintendent of the police’s Kowloon West crime division, told reporters yesterday. “We are not treating them as suspects at the moment.” As of 1 a.m. today, the two men hadn’t come forward, according to the police information office.

The “suspicious” blaze at hawkers’ stalls in the crowded Fa Yuen Street, famous for its markets and shops in narrow streets, followed an arson attack in the same area last December that damaged shops and burnt 50 stalls. An 11-month-old boy, 16 men and 17 women, were admitted to hospital, with five in critical condition as of 10 p.m. yesterday, according to the government.    More