The death toll from a fire that tore through a Hong Kong residential estate this week has risen to 146, police said on Sunday, November 30th.
Officers from the Disaster Victim Identification Unit recovered additional bodies as they expanded their search into three more high-rises at Wang Fuk Court, the site of the world’s deadliest residential building fire since 1980.
At a news conference, Tsang Shuk-yin, Chief Superintendent of the police’s Casualty Enquiry Unit, said:
We cannot rule out the possibility of further fatalities.
On Sunday, more than 1,000 people from across the city flocked to the housing complex in Hong Kong’s northern Tai Po district to pay their respects.
Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdog has arrested 11 people in connection with the fire, three of whom were also arrested by police on suspicion of murder.
