Hong Kong fire death toll rises to 55
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The blaze is Hong Kong’s deadliest in more than 100 years. In 1918, a fire ripped through the city’s Happy Valley Racecourse, killing 614 people. In August 1962, a fire in the city’s Sham Shui Po district killed 44 people, while a fire at the Garley Building on Nathan Road in Kowloon killed 41 people and injured 81 others in November 1996.
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.
As stunned Hong Kong residents grapple with the sheer speed and scale of a deadly fire, they’re raising critical questions about whether this disaster could have been prevented.
A deadly inferno has torn through a massive housing complex in Hong Kong, killing at least 83 people with many more still missing, in the city’s worst disaster in decades.
A deadly blaze at Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po has killed at least 44 and displaced thousands, as firefighters battle a rapidly spreading high-rise inferno amid major rescue challenges.
Hong Kong's deadliest fire in a century has claimed the lives of at least 94 people, including firefighter Ho Wai Ho, 37, who was due to marry his girlfriend of over a decade this December.Wearing her pain with pride and longing as she took to her social media accounts on Thursday (Nov 27),
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