In Memoriam
Parent: 🔥 Hong Kong Fire 2025
On 26 November 2025, a fire at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po killed 168 people — Hong Kong's deadliest fire since 1948. This page exists to hold their names.
Who they were
The dead were 58 men and 110 women, aged from six months to 98 years. Among them were one firefighter (senior fireman Ho Wai-ho), two renovation workers, five construction workers, and ten foreign domestic helpers — women from Indonesia and the Philippines who died alongside the families they worked for. Thirty-seven households lost at least two members. By 15 January 2026 all 168 had been identified through forensic work, and every missing-person case was resolved.
The names were almost never told
For months after the fire the government did not release the victims' names. On 15 January 2026 the Secretary for Security said the names would be withheld "to respect the wishes of the bereaved"; Ming Pao reported that some families had not been asked whether they consented. The names entered the public record only on 10 June 2026, when prosecutors charged seven people and two firms over the deaths and read all 168 names into the court record in the charge sheet. We set them down here so that they are remembered as people, not as a number.
The 168
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About this list
The names are given as they appear in the prosecution's charge sheet, read in open court on 10 June 2026 — the first time the full list became public. Because the names were first transcribed by journalists from that record, we cross-checked them across three independent transcriptions (HK01, Sing Tao, and the record kept on Chinese Wikipedia) and reconciled the few differences; a reputable source copy is preserved in the archive. We have deliberately not relied on state-media versions. The names are shown in the order of the court record. If you spot an error in a name — the thing that matters most on a page like this — please tell us so we can correct it.
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Sources
- The prosecution charge sheet (West Kowloon Magistrates' Court, 10 June 2026), which first disclosed all 168 names — reported by HKFP (the charges) and published in full by HK01 and Sing Tao Headline.
- Official casualty confirmation (168 dead; 58 male / 110 female; 6 months–98; 1 firefighter, 2 renovation + 5 site workers, 10 foreign domestic helpers), 15 January 2026 — RTHK.
- On the earlier withholding of the names — Ming Pao.
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