Hong Kong buildings blaze engulfs multiple buildings, kills 36, nearly 300 missing

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Massive flames and thick plumes of dark smoke could be seen coming from multiple towers at the housing complex, which opened in 1983 and has almost 2,000 residential units across eight buildings.

Harry Cheung, 66, who has lived in the area for more than 40 years, told Reuters he heard a loud noise and saw fire erupt in a nearby block.

“I immediately went back to pack up my things,” he said.

“I don’t even know how I feel right now. I’m just thinking about where I’m going to sleep tonight because I probably won’t be able to go back home.”

“I’ve given up thinking about my property,” a resident who only provided her surname, Wu, told local TV station TVB. “Watching it burn like that was really frustrating.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/fire-engulfs-residential-building-hong-kong-2025-11-26/

HONG KONG, Nov 26 (Reuters) - At least 36 people were killed and 279 were missing on Wednesday after Hong Kong's deadliest fire in three decades ripped through high-rise residential towers sheathed in flammable bamboo scaffolding, authorities said.
Hours after the fire started in the northern Tai Po district, flames and thick smoke still engulfed the 32-storey towers where many people were believed trapped inside. Rescue workers swarmed the site as shocked inhabitants watched on.