At least 36 people were killed and hundreds are missing after a fire engulfed several high-rise residential towers in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district Wednesday. John Lee, Hong Kong’s chief executive, said ...

Dark smoke was rising nearly 24 hours after the blaze engulfed the apartment complex. More than 270 people were still missing. Smoke billowing from a housing complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on ...

Firefighters were still trying to fully extinguish the blaze more than 24 hours after it engulfed several towers in the complex. Dozens of people were still missing. Smoke billowing from a housing ...

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HONG KONG — A massive fire tore through a high-rise housing complex in Hong Kong on Wednesday into Friday, in one of the region's deadliest blazes in decades. Hong Kong authorities say at least 146 ...

At least 40 people are dead and hundreds missing, officials said. LONDON -- At least 40 people were killed and hundreds reported missing after a massive fire engulfed a residential apartment complex ...

Police in Hong Kong have arrested three men from a construction company on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with a blaze that has killed at least 94 people and left hundreds of others missing ...

The devastating inferno that rapidly spread across multiple high-rise apartment buildings in a Hong Kong housing complex has been described by many officials in the city as an unusual occurrence.

Three men have been arrested in connection with an investigation into a fire that ripped through high-rise residential buildings in Hong Kong on Nov. 26, killing dozens of people as authorities search ...

A deadly inferno tore through a massive housing complex in Hong Kong earlier this week, killing at least 146 people with many still missing, in the city’s worst disaster in decades. About 40 people ...

A massive fire ripped through multiple high-rise residential blocks in Hong Kong’s northern Tai Po district on Wednesday, killing at least 36 people and injuring 29 as authorities struggled to bring ...