The d4adly inferno that tore through a high-rise housing estate in Hong Kong has left at least 128 people d4ad, authorities said Friday, with some 200 people still missing
Firefighters combing each apartment in the charred tower complex had found dozens more bodies, officials said at a news conference, raising the d4ath toll as smoke still drifted into the air of the Chinese territory some 48 hours after its deadliest blaze in decades.
The city’s Secretary for Security, Chris Tang, told reporters that 89 bodies could not yet be identified, while there were also 79 people injured.
Preliminary findings revealed that the fire initially started in the surrounding netting outside the lower floors at Wang Cheong House, one of the seven impacted towers at the Wang Fuk Court building complex, Tang said.
“The foam boards covering the windows are highly flammable,” Tang added, although the scaffold netting had been proven as flame-retardant.
He went on to add that the burning of the foam boards resulted in the fire quickly spreading to other floors and affecting six more blocks at Wang Fuk Court.
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This is sad
It is so unfortunate