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Fire breaks out at late ‘King of Gambling’ Stanley Ho’s former Hong Kong home
Blaze at No 1 Repulse Bay Road starts after water pump for an aquarium short-circuits and explodes; seven workers flee
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A fire broke out at the former home of late “King of Gambling” Stanley Ho Hung-sun in Hong Kong’s upmarket Repulse Bay area on Tuesday afternoon, forcing seven workers to flee.
The blaze started at No 1 Repulse Bay Road after a water pump for an aquarium short-circuited and exploded, authorities said.
A call was made to emergency services at 2.45pm but the flames had already died down before firefighters arrived. Some electrical cables were damaged in the fire.
No injuries were reported. A police spokesman confirmed that the owner of the house was not present at the time.
Ho, the patriarch of Asia’s largest casino empire, died in May 2020 at the age of 98.
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