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Painstaking search for bodies after deadly Hong Kong housing complex fire nears end
Headline from Local News 8, on the newest of 4 developments
By Chris Lau, Rhea Mogul, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The painstaking effort to identify the remains of those killed in the deadly blaze that engulfed a Hong Kong residential complex last week is nearing its conclusion, as specialists complete the difficult search of the heavily charred apartment blocks.
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Painstaking search for bodies after deadly Hong Kong housing complex fire nears end
By Catherine Nicholls, Chris Lau, Jadyn Beverley Sham and Lex Harvey, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A deadly inferno has torn through a massive housing complex in Hong Kong, killing at least 44 people with more than 270 others still missing, in what is shaping up to be the city’s worst disaster in decades.
By Chris Lau, Samra Zulfaqar, Helen Regan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The number of people killed in the devastating Hong Kong apartment complex fire has risen to 128 with as many as 200 missing, officials said Friday, as firefighters finally brought the blaze under control 42 hours after it ignited.
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong firefighters found dozens more bodies Friday in an intensive apartment-by-apartment search of a high-rise complex where a massive fire engulfed seven
HONG KONG — The inferno that tore through a high-rise housing estate in Hong Kong has killed at least 128 people, authorities said Friday, with some 200 people still missing.
The blaze started on Wednesday at one of the towers and spread across seven buildings in the Wang Fuk Court complex. Rescuers are still going from apartment to apartment searching.
Families of the scores still missing after Hong Kong's worst blaze in decades scoured hospitals Friday as firefighters searched the last of the torched
CNN By Chris Lau, Samra Zulfaqar, Fred He and Helen Regan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The number of people killed in the devastating Hong Kong apartment complex fire has risen to 128 with as many as 200 missing, officials said Friday, as authorities announced eight more arrests over the blaze.
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.
