Who is to blame for Hong Kong's deadly 2025 fire?

An independent Hong Kong committee blamed a renovation contractor and consultant as well as four ​government departments for a deadly blaze that killed 168 people in the city ​last November, according to its report released to the ‌public ​on Thursday. The more than 1,000-page report by the judge-led panel detailed a series of regulatory and supervisory failings in Hong Kong's building renovation and regulatory system that it said had contributed to the rapid spread of the fire.

KEY FINDINGS: (Compiled by Anne ​Marie Roantree; Editing by Saad Sayeed)