An independent committee investigating Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades has found “key clues” pointing to systemic loopholes that it called “unacceptable”. At the committee’s first meeting, lasting 1½ hours on Thursday, senior counsel Victor Dawes said the body had received extensive information from relevant parties. The leading barrister added that this had given the committee a “considerable understanding” of the fire at the Wang Fuk Court housing estate in Tai Po. “The evidence appears...