{"id":291649,"date":"2025-11-30T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/291649\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:56:13","slug":"hong-kong-fire-death-toll-rises-to-146-as-thousands-pay-their-respects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/291649\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong fire: Death toll rises to 146 as thousands pay their respects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There have been queues stretching a long as 2km (1.2 miles), as people wait to lay flowers and handwritten notes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Indonesian worker Romlah Rosidah said she was &#8220;very surprised&#8221; at how many people had turned up to pray for the victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This event was only spread on social media, but [it] turned out their hearts moved,&#8221; she told news agency Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Filipino worker said they had joined the prayers to &#8220;show the Hong Kong community that we are one in this situation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officials observed three minutes&#8217; silence to begin the mourning period, and the flags of China and Hong Kong are flying at half-staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fire is Hong Kong&#8217;s deadliest in more than 70 years, and the death toll has been rising each day, as officials work to recover and identify bodies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The exact cause of the blaze has yet to be determined. Eight people have been arrested on suspicion of corruption over the renovations that had been taking place on the towers, while three others were detained on manslaughter charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been queues stretching a long as 2km (1.2 miles), as people wait to lay flowers and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-291649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}