The New York Post reports: "Hong Kong high-rise fire kills 36 as blaze rips through multiple towers in Tai Po." The article relates:
A massive fire ripped through multiple high-rise residential blocks in Hong Kong’s northern Tai Po district on Wednesday, killing at least 36 people and injuring 29 as authorities struggled to bring the blaze under control. At latest count, 279 people are missing.
Firefighters battled the orange flames into the night as thick black smoke billowed from the 32-story towers, which were sheathed in bamboo scaffolding – whose use the government began phasing out in March for safety reasons – and green construction mesh.
The cause of the blaze was not immediately known.
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