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SouthBayDem

(33,051 posts)
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 06:33 PM Thursday

Dozens dead in Hong Kong fire as rescue workers search for survivors - ITV News



Nov 27, 2025
At least 88 people have been killed and hundreds remain missing after a fire swept through a residential apartment complex in Hong Kong.

Firefighters continued to tackle the fire at the Wang Fuk Court complex in the Tai Po district on Thursday after it quickly spread across the bamboo scaffolding around its exterior.

Hong Kong's leader, John Lee, said contact had been lost with 279 people.

Rescue efforts were continuing in some of the towers, but authorities did not give any updates on the missing people or how many were still trapped inside the ravaged buildings at a press conference on Thursday.


This report was rebroadcast Thanksgiving Day on PBS NewsHour in the US. The NewsHour has shown ITV News international reports for many years.
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So the builders saved money, no sprinkler system, cheap materials used, close together, bamboo effing scaffolds... wcmagumba Thursday #1
I was in similar disbelief when I listened to the RTHK hourly news last night SouthBayDem Thursday #2

wcmagumba

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1. So the builders saved money, no sprinkler system, cheap materials used, close together, bamboo effing scaffolds...
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 06:40 PM
Thursday

JHC, Hong Kong, city of death...

SouthBayDem

(33,051 posts)
2. I was in similar disbelief when I listened to the RTHK hourly news last night
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 06:52 PM
Thursday

reacting: "They used BAMBOO? What century is this?"

Evan Osnos also recounted, in his 2014 book Age of Ambition about social attitudes in 21st century China that prior to the deadly 2008 Sichuan earthquake: "...so much money had been siphoned off that designs that called for steel had, in some cases, been built with bamboo instead."

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