At least 13 folks have been killed after a fireplace unfold throughout multi high-rise residence buildings in a Hong Kong housing advanced, the fireplace division mentioned late Wednesday.
The raging hearth despatched up a column of flames and thick smoke because it unfold on bamboo scaffolding and development netting that had been arrange across the exterior of the advanced within the metropolis’s Tai Po district.
The property – a public housing advanced – consists of eight buildings, and practically 2,000 residences. It homes greater than 4,600 residents, in line with the final census information, amongst them many aged residents.
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