Hong Kong anti-corruption agency arrests eight over deadly apartment towers fire

A bouquet of flowers (Ng Han Guan/AP)

Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency says it has arrested eight people connected to the renovation of the high-rise apartments that were engulfed in a massive fire that left 128 people dead.

Seven men and one woman, aged between 40 and 63, including scaffolding subcontractors, directors of an engineering consultancy and project managers supervising the renovation, were detained, the Independent Commission Against Corruption said in a statement.