THICK smoke and flames (left) rise as the fire engulfs apartment blocks at a residential estate in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district. A woman sobs at a shelter after her family was evacuated from one of the buildings.—Agencies
HONG KONG: Thirty-six people were killed and 279 missing on Wednesday after Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in three decades ripped through high-rise residential towers sheathed in flammable bamboo scaffolding.
More than 10 hours after the fire started in the northern Tai Po district, flames and thick smoke still engulfed the 32-storey towers as rescue workers swarmed the site and shocked inhabitants watched nearby.
The blaze was fanned
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