People offer flowers and pray for the victims near the site of a deadly Wednesday fire at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong's New Territories on Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025. CHAN LONG HEI / AP
The death toll in a fire that tore through a Hong Kong residential estate this week has risen to 146, police said on Sunday, November 30. Officers of the Disaster Victim Identification Unit recovered additional bodies as they expanded their search into three more high-rises at Wang Fuk Court, which suffered the world's deadliest residential building fire since 1980.
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Deadly Hong Kong fire kills at least 128 amid growing concern over renovation safety
"As of 4:00 pm [local time], the latest death toll stands at 146. We cannot rule out the possibility of further fatalities," chief superintendent Tsang Shuk-yin of the police's casualty inquiry unit said at a news conference.
