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13 dead as searing heat hampers Hong Kong Tai Po blaze rescue efforts

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Thirteen people including a firefighter have been killed and at least 15 others are critically injured in an inferno ravaging a housing estate in Hong Kong’s Tai Po neighbourhood, as flames lash over bamboo scaffolding across seven blocks with multiple residents trapped inside. Huge plumes of dark smoke billowed high into the sky at the scene at Wang Fuk...


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