By James Pomfret and Clare Jim, Reuters
Photo: Tyrone Siu/Reuters via CNN Newsource
Hong Kong's deadliest fire in three decades has spotlighted its risky use of flammable bamboo scaffolding and mesh for building work in a tradition dating back centuries to mainland China.
The origin of the blaze was unclear, but there was no hiding the ease with which the fire rapidly spread across the green netting and sent bamboo lattices crashing to the ground in flames.
For decades in the skyscraper-strewn former British colony, bamboo has been the material of choice for scaffol
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