{"id":92287,"date":"2025-11-27T19:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=92287"},"modified":"2025-11-27T19:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:00:50","slug":"death-toll-from-hong-kong-apartment-complex-fire-rises-to-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/death-toll-from-hong-kong-apartment-complex-fire-rises-to-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll from Hong Kong apartment complex fire rises to 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG: The death toll from a fire in a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/north-korean-trash-balloon-lands-in-south-korean-presidential-compound\/\">residential complex<\/a> in Hong Kong has risen to 65.<\/p>\n<p>A fire that broke out last night in a multi-storey residential complex in the northern area of \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bHong Kong has caused devastation, engulfing several blocks of the building in a flash.<\/p>\n<p>According to the news agency, 65 people have died so far in the fire incident, of which 51 died on the spot while the others died in hospital during treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the death toll from a fire in a high-rise residential complex in\u00a0Hong Kong had risen to 36.<\/p>\n<p>According to a foreign news agency, a fire broke out in a high-rise residential complex in the northern area of \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bHong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The fire department described the fire as a fourth-degree fire, which has been under control for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll from the fire has risen to 36, while officials have said that 29 people have been injured, including a firefighter, and some firefighters who were trying to control the fire have also been injured.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say that 279 people are missing from the residential blocks affected by the fire.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, several people are still trapped in the building, and efforts are underway to evacuate them. About 700 people have been moved to temporary shelters.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the residential complex consists of 8 blocks, each building is 31 stories high and has a total of about 2,000 apartments and about 5,000 people living here.<\/p>\n<p>According to the news agency, the cause of the fire in the residential complex is not known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG: The death toll from a fire in a residential complex in Hong Kong has risen to 65. A fire that broke out last night in a multi-storey residential complex in the northern area of \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bHong Kong has caused devastation, engulfing several blocks of the building in a flash. According to the news agency, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":92288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32571],"class_list":["post-92287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-hong-kong-apartment-complex-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92289,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92287\/revisions\/92289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}