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Hong Kong residents devastated by mega blaze in blocks of flats
Ng could only watch as flames engulfed the building she had called home for decades. (ABC News: James Oaten)
As fire raced up seven high-rise towers in Hong Kong's Tai Po district, resident Ng was in a state of disbelief.
Her husband called her to say the buildings were on fire, but since the fire alarm had not gone off, she was unsure.
For curiosity's sake, she decided to go to the ground floor and look for herself.
She witnessed an inferno as fire quickly spread from one building to another.
"I came down and didn't bring anything, just wearing this outfit," she told the ABC.
Graphics and video show Hong Kong fire’s rapid, deadly spread
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The building fire in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong’s New Territories.Credit: AP
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Hong Kong investigators are piecing together how the city’s worst fire in decades rapidly raged through seven high-rise buildings on Wednesday, leaving at least 94 people dead, dozens injured and scores missing.
As fires smouldered in several apartment blocks at the Wang Fuk Court housing complex on Friday, firefighters continued searching for residents unaccounted for. Extreme heat was hampering rescue efforts, officials said.
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Rescue operations at Hong Kong apartment complex ‘almost complete’, as death toll reaches 94
By Friday morning the fires had been mostly contained, after burning for more than 24 hours, officials announced
Anger swelling in Hong Kong over deadliest fire in more than 70 years
Rescue operations inside the Hong Kong apartment complex that was engulfed by fire on Wednesday are âalmost completeâ, fire officials have said, as the death toll reached 94 early on Friday with scores more missing.
Firefighters were combing though through the high-rises on Friday, attempting to find anyone alive after the massive fire that spread to seven of eight towers, in one of the cityâs deadliest ever blazes.
Throughout the morning more families arrived at the Kwong Fuk Estate community centre, adjacent to Wang Fuk Court, to identify the bodies being pulled from the gutted buildings. Few names of the dead have been released to the public yet.
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