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Hong Kong apartment fires

  • Hong Kong chief executive John Lee (C) and other officials observe three minutes of silence on Saturday to mourn victims of the Wang Fuk Court residential estate fire

    Hong Kong begins three days of mourning after deadly apartment fires

    Families are combing hospitals hoping to find their loved ones as about 200 people still listed as missing, and at least 128 killed
  • About 200 people are still unaccounted for, including 89 bodies that cannot be visually identified.

    ‘We can’t get any answers’: grief and anger in Hong Kong after deadly high-rise fire

    With the blaze extinguished but hundreds still unaccounted for, the city is grieving – with questions being raised of authorities
    • Rescue efforts end at Hong Kong tower block fire as death toll reaches 128

    • How the Hong Kong fire unfolded – visual guide

    • Hong Kong community groups deliver aid to survivors of Wang Fuk Court fire

  • Firefighting appliances direct water on to the blackened tower blocks

    Hong Kong police say unsafe scaffolding and foam may have spread fire that killed at least 94

  • Smoke and flames rise as fire engulfs several residential buildings at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po district, Hong Kong.

    Hong Kong fire: death toll rises to 83 as rescue crews search for survivors in still-burning towers – as it happened

  • Thick smoke and flames rise as a major fire engulfs several apartment blocks at the Wang Fuk Court residential estate in Hong Kong's Tai Po district on Wednesday.

    Hong Kong fire: what we know so far

  • Blackened and smoking tower blocks

    Anger swelling in Hong Kong over deadliest fire in more than 70 years

  • Hong Kong apartment fires continue to burn as people rally to support survivors – video

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  • In air thick with acrid smoke, people in Hong Kong are reeling and angry

  • The complex is made up of eight 31-storey towers containing about 2,000 flats, which house about 4,800 people

    Three arrested as Hong Kong tower fire leaves dozens dead - video

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  • A man looks horrified as thick smoke and flames rise as a fire engulfs several apartment blocks.

    Death toll in Hong Kong tower block fire rises to 44 with hundreds still missing

  • Fire and smoke emerges from the building, which has bamboo scaffolding erected outside it.

    Bamboo scaffolding may be to blame for spread of Hong Kong tower block fire

  •  The blaze broke out at Wang Fuk Court, made up of eight blocks housing about 2,000 homes

    Several trapped as fire engulfs high-rise residential complex in Hong Kong – video

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