A visual timeline of the few hours it took a small fire to grow into Hong Kong’s worst blaze in decades


In just a few short hours on Wednesday afternoon, what began as a small fire on the first floor of an apartment building swelled into a raging inferno that consumed seven high-rise towers on a Hong Kong public housing estate.

At least 128 people have died, as many as 200 are missing, and thousands are now homeless in a city that is chronically short of space – and where property prices are among the world’s most expensive.

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