By Holmes Chan and Tommy Wang, AFP
Photo: PETER PARKS / AFP
Hong Kong authorities say the death toll from the city's worst fire in decades has risen to at least 75, as firefighters scoured torched high-rise buildings in an apartment complex for scores of people listed as missing.
Flames were still visible in some of the eight-building estate's almost 2000 units well over 24 hours after the fire broke out, with crews still spraying water over the blackened exteriors.
Authorities have begun investigating what sparked the disastrous blaze -- the financial hub's worst in almost 80 years -- including the presence of bamboo scaffolding and plastic mesh wrapped around the structures as part of an estate-wide renovation.
Hong Kong's anti-corruption body
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