{"id":75365,"date":"2025-11-27T18:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/nov\/27\/aerial-video-shows-scale-of-hong-kong-apartment-complex-fire"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:39:18","slug":"aerial-video-shows-scale-of-hong-kong-apartment-complex-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75365","title":{"rendered":"Aerial video shows scale of Hong Kong apartment complex fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 55 people have died after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2025\/nov\/27\/hong-kong-fire-tai-po-police-blame-construction-company\">fire engulfed several residential apartment blocks<\/a> at the Wang Fuk Court complex in Tai Po, Hong Kong, on Wednesday. At least 45 people are in a critical condition and almost 300 people are missing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>By Thursday morning, the fires had not been fully extinguished at the site, which comprises eight 32-storey towers containing about 2,000 flats. About 4,800 people live on the premises, which were being renovated at the time. Three men \u2013 two directors and an engineering consultant whose ages range from 52 to 68 \u2013 have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. The trio worked at a construction company, police said<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/nov\/27\/hong-kong-fire-arrests-dead-killed-hundreds-missing-housing-complex-blaze\">Hong Kong fire \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/nov\/27\/aerial-video-shows-scale-of-hong-kong-apartment-complex-fire\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 55 people have died after a fire engulfed several residential apartment blocks at the Wang Fuk Court complex in Tai Po, Hong Kong, on Wednesday. At least 45 people are in a critical condition and almost 300 people are missing.By Thursday morni&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/75365","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75366,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75365\/revisions\/75366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}