The death toll from a high-rise fire in Hong Kong has risen to at least 44, officials said on Thursday (November 27, 2025) as the blaze still smoldered and police said three suspects were arrested.
Hundreds more remained unaccounted for in the city’s worst blaze in decades.
People look at flames engulfing a building after a fire broke out at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong’s New Territories, on November 26 2025. | Photo Credit: AP
The fire which started on Wednesday (November 26, 2025) afternoon in an eight-building complex with 2,000 apartment units shocked the Chinese financial hub, which has some of the world’s most densely populated and tallest residential blocks.
The fire department raised the death toll from 36 to 44 in an early morning press briefing.
