Firefighters worked to put out a deadly blaze that tore through apartment buildings in Tai Po, Hong Kong, as the death toll rose to 44 on the morning of Thursday7.Footage shared to Instagram Threads by user Gary S L Wong shows emergency crews using huge cranes to battle the blaze,

The death toll has risen following the Hong Kong high-rise fire, which is now the deadliest in decades, and three arrests have been made in connection with the blaze.

The fire that ripped through high-rise residential towers sheathed in flammable bamboo scaffolding may have been spread by unsafe scaffolding and foam materials used during maintenance work, police said In November 1996, 41 people died in a commercial building in the Kowloon district.

Firefighters worked to put out a deadly blaze that tore through apartment buildings in Tai Po, Hong Kong, as the death toll rose to 44 on the morning of Thursday7.Footage shared to Instagram Threads by user @winnie_ng927 shows the scale of the devastation,

A huge fire still burning in a Hong Kong residential apartment complex that has killed at least 44 people and left almost 300 missing may have been spread