Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾From China's state media, Xinhua, about the #HongKongFires
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛As some people have been checking in on me:
I'm safe from the fires, and anyone I know is fine. My home is 20 km or so away from the three buildings on fire.
OGLeahAnderson ✒️📓Records show the housing complex consisted of eight buildings with almost 2,000 apartments housing about 4,800 residents, including many elderly people.
Multiple buildings close to each other were set ablaze, with bright flames and smoke shooting out of windows as night fell. #HongKongFires
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Death toll in Hong Kong high-rise fire rises to 44, with 279 people reported missing
Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in years is still burning. It has left at least 44 people dead and 279 reported missing with rescuers pulling residents from blazing high-rise apartment buildings into the morning. Police had arrested three men on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with fire which began Wednesday afternoon in a housing complex in Tai Po district, a suburb in the New Territories. By Thursday morning local time, the fire was yet to be put out and rescues continued with the death toll reaching 44. Hundreds of residents were evacuated as the fire spread across seven of the eight buildings in the complex.