30/11/2025
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30/11/2025
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People line up to offer flowers and prayers for the victims near the site of a deadly Wednesday fire at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong's New Territories on Nov 30. (AP)
HONG KONG, Nov 30, (AP): Hong Kong authorities say the death toll from the blaze in an apartment complex has risen to 146 after more bodies have been found. Shuk-yin Tsang, the head of the Hong Kong police casualty unit, told reporters at the scene on Sunday that another 100 people remain unaccounted for.
Previously 128 deaths had been reported. Seven of eight buildings of the Wang Fuk Court complex burned in the blaze that started Wednesday afternoon and wasn’t fully extinguished until Friday morning. So far, the police victim identification unit has searched through four of the buildings.
