{"id":75345,"date":"2025-11-27T07:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T22:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/nov\/27\/hong-kong-fire-arrests-dead-killed-hundreds-missing-housing-complex-blaze"},"modified":"2025-11-28T03:34:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:34:30","slug":"hong-kong-fire-live-updates-three-reportedly-arrested-with-dozens-dead-and-hundreds-missing-in-apartment-complex-blaze-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75345","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong fire: death toll rises to 83 as rescue crews search for survivors in still-burning towers \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fire officials say operation to extinguish inferno is nearly complete, saying they have had calls from 25 people they are yet to reach<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Full report: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2025\/nov\/27\/hong-kong-fire-tai-po-police-blame-construction-company\">Hong Kong police say unsafe scaffolding and foam may have spread fire<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2025\/nov\/27\/how-hong-kong-fire-unfolded-apartment-block-blaze-wang-court\">A visual guide to the fire<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The death toll has risen again to 44, fire officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said they are still having difficulties proceeding into the upper floors in some of the buildings in the residential complex as the fire continues.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/nov\/27\/hong-kong-fire-arrests-dead-killed-hundreds-missing-housing-complex-blaze\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire officials say operation to extinguish inferno is nearly complete, saying they have had calls from 25 people they are yet to reachFull report: Hong Kong police say unsafe scaffolding and foam may have spread fireA visual guide to the fireThe death &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48,3452,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong","category-hong-kong-apartment-fires","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75345"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75374,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75345\/revisions\/75374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}