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A university student has created a petition urging the government to respond to “four big demands” after the deadly Tai Po fire, including setting up an independent investigation committee and reviewing construction supervision procedures.

Miles Kwan and two friends, who declined to be named or photographed, handed out flyers with a link to a Change.org petition outside Tai Po MTR station on Friday night.

Just hours before, authorities announced that the death toll for the fatal fire at Wang Fuk Court had risen to 128. Around 200 people are still unaccounted for.

The housing estate fire began at one apartment block but quickly spread to others, engulfing seven of the eight buildings in the complex. Wang Fuk Court had been undergoing a large-scale renovation project, with the towers encased in protective nets and bamboo scaffolding.

Kwan told reporters he felt moved to create the petition after listening to the press briefing by top officials on Thursday night, during which Chief Secretary Eric Chan said the city would phase out bamboo scaffolding in favour of metal scaffolding.

“We think this is actually spinning Hongkongers away from the real question, that is, the real institution,” he said. “The whole institution is already broken down.”

Kwan added, “We see that the regulatory laws that people [who] are building the buildings should be compliant to – we see them not being respected.”

‘United in grief’

The university student’s comment comes amid rumours of suspected bid-rigging linked to the estate’s renovation project.

According to local media, the project was awarded by the Wang Fuk Court owners’ corporation to the construction company that was the most expensive bidder. A police investigation found the foam boards used were highly flammable.

Police arrested three people linked to the construction company responsible for the renovation work on suspicion of manslaughter on Thursday.

On Friday, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) arrested eight people suspected of corruption. Among them were directors of a construction consultancy firm and scaffolding subcontractors.

Kwan’s four demands are for the government to ensure accommodation for displaced residents; set up an independent investigation committee to look into potential conflicts of interest; review the construction supervision system; and probe regulatory neglect, as well as hold government officials accountable.

Asked if he was afraid of potential consequences of voicing these “four demands” in the current political climate, Kwan said he could not “put much effort into thinking about consequences.“

“Hongkongers are united in grief, we are united in anger. Of course, we think that all of our demands should be tolerated by the law,” he added.

“If the government thinks these four very, very basic, fundamental demands are making them sensitive, [that I’m] trying to incite any anger or hatred about them, it would be very oversensitive of them,” he said.