Infant among 159 killed in Hong Kong apartment fires

People place paper cranes near the site of the fire at Wang Fuk Court (Chan Long Hei/AP)

The death toll of Hong Kong’s high-rise apartment blaze rose to 159 on Wednesday, as authorities arrested six people on suspicion of deactivating some fire alarms during maintenance work at the housing complex.

The youngest person who died in the fire was a one-year-old infant, police said. The oldest was 97.