{"id":318379,"date":"2025-11-28T09:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/318379\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:44:10","slug":"the-death-toll-from-the-hong-kong-high-rise-apartment-complex-fire-has-risen-to-128-the-hong-kong-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/318379\/","title":{"rendered":"The death toll from the Hong Kong high-rise apartment complex fire has risen to 128, the Hong Kong g.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/news-p.v1.20251128.a5f3acf4f6964bf3a54cbfc68eeb5c18_P1.jpg\" orgwidth=\"700\" orgheight=\"467\" alt=\"At 9:15 p.m. on the 27th (local time), Hong Kong residents watch a fire near the high-rise apartment complex &quot;Wang Fuk Court&quot; in northern Taipei. [Yonhap News]\"\/>                      \uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300                At 9:15 p.m. on the 27th (local time), Hong Kong residents watch a fire near the high-rise apartment complex &#8220;Wang Fuk Court&#8221; in northern Taipei. [Yonhap News]      <\/p>\n<p refid=\"2\">The death toll from the Hong Kong high-rise apartment complex fire has risen to 128, the Hong Kong government says.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"3\">According to Xinhua News Agency on the 28th, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Security Director Christang told a briefing this afternoon that the fire has killed 128 people so far, and more bodies could be found in the future. The number of people injured was counted as 79.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"4\">Hong Kong&#8217;s South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the situation of the missing, which was announced to have reached 200 people early the previous day, is currently unclear.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"5\">The fire broke out at 2:52 p.m. (local time) on the 26th at Wong Fuk Court, a 32-story residential high-rise apartment complex in Tai Po, northern Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p refid=\"6\">Seven out of eight apartment complexes with 2,000 households caught fire, and local fire authorities had difficulty in the strong fire and completed the extinguishing work at 10:18 a.m. on the same day, about 43 hours later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\uc0ac\uc9c4 \ud655\ub300 At 9:15 p.m. on the 27th (local time), Hong Kong residents watch a fire near the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-318379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}