Authorities have scrambled to contain public anger over the blaze, in which poor oversight and shoddy materials used in a renovation have been cited as factors.

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Official efforts to control the public response include a threat to arrest those who direct their anger at the government.

Officials are rushing to tamp down anger over the blaze, which killed at least 159 people in the Chinese territory’s deadliest fire in almost 80 years.