What the records say
- When
- 25 Dec 1953
- Kind
- Fire
- Coordinates
- 22.33° N, 114.17° E
- Description
- 1953 disaster in Hong Kong
- Deaths
- 3
- Injured
- 51
Shek Kip Mei fire
1953 disaster in Hong Kong
The Shek Kip Mei fire took place in Hong Kong on 25 December 1953. It destroyed the Shek Kip Mei shanty town of immigrants from mainland China who had fled to Hong Kong, leaving over 53,000 people homeless.
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- Wikidata: famines, epidemics and firesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “石硤尾大火：香港九龍石硤尾木屋區發生大火，5萬人無家可歸。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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