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- Hong Kong’s most devastating fire in more than 60 years has killed at least 44 people, and about 280 remain missing.
- Firefighters are continuing to battle the blaze that engulfed several high-rise buildings in the city-state’s Tai Po neighbourhood on Wednesday afternoon.
- The fire is believed to have started on bamboo scaffolding erected on the outside of a building, which then spread to green netting used during repair work.
- Hong Kong’s previous deadliest fire was in August 1962, when a blaze in the city’s Sham Shui Po district killed 44 people.
