Deadly Hong Kong Fire Is a Test of Beijing’s Rule in City
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The city's worst blaze in decades broke out on Nov. 26 and rapidly engulfed seven of eight buildings in an apartment complex.
Firefighters combing the charred tower complex found dozens more bodies, officials said Friday, as smoke still drifted into the air of the Chinese territory.
A deadly blaze ripped through bamboo scaffolding on a multi-tower housing estate in Hong Kong, killing dozens of people and leaving hundreds more missing.
A blaze that ripped through a massive apartment block in Hong Kong has claimed at least 94 lives, surpassing the toll of a similar incident at London's Grenfell Tower in 2017.
Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades is raising questions about suspected corruption and negligence in the renovations of the apartment complex in which at least 128 people died.
Hong Kong authorities say at least 128 people have died killed in the fire that spread through a dense high-rise residential housing complex Wednesday.
Hong Kong firefighters found dozens more bodies Friday in an intensive apartment-by-apartment search of a high-rise complex where a fire engulfed seven buildings, and authorities arrested another 8 people involved in the towers' renovation.
A massive fire in Hong Kong's Tai Po district has become the deadliest in the city's memory, causing 128 deaths with 200 people unaccounted-for