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The authorities said flammable netting and foam boards may have fueled the city’s deadliest blaze in nearly 70 years, killing more than 90 and prompting arrests.
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By Alexandra StevensonJoy DongTiffany May and Keith Bradsher, New York Times
Alexandra Stevenson, Joy Dong and Tiffany May reported from Hong Kong, and Keith Bradsher from Beijing.
- Nov. 27, 2025Updated 6:47 p.m. ET
In Hong Kong, a city where millions of residents sleep, eat and work high above the ground in towers pressed together like books on a shelf, there has long been the threat that a massive fire could trap people inside their high-rises.
By Thursday, the scale of that nightmare emerged, as an inferno that had begun a day earlier with one 32-story building and quickly engulfed six other towers at an aging apartment complex became the deadliest fire in Hong Kong’s modern history. On Friday morning, the authorities said that at least 94 people had died in the blaze and dozens of others were still unaccounted for.
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