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'I am watching it spread from I building to 3... It is really terrifying'
The Straits Times
|November 28, 2025
Residents anxiously awaited news of their loved ones on Nov 27 at a temporary shelter as one of Hong Kong’s deadliest fires in decades engulfed a 2,000-unit high-rise complex.
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The blaze, still smouldering early on Nov 27, has claimed at least 75 lives, with the authorities reporting that hundreds more remain unaccounted for.
It started on Nov 26, shocking the financial hub with some of the world’s most densely populated and tallest apartment blocks.
Sounds of bamboo scaffolding burning and exploding could be heard at the site. Thick smoke billowed upwards from buildings.
“I truly think it is very scary. I am watching it spread from just one building to three, then four,” Ms Veezy Chan, 25, a resident of the area, said on Nov 26. “It is really terrifying.”
After the shelter opened on the evening of Nov 26, residents kept arriving to report family members they had lost contact with.
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