HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong police said on Thursday the death toll in a fire that ripped through residential blocks in the city had risen to 40, with 45 people still in a critical condition.
A massive fire ripped through multiple high-rise residential blocks in Hong Kong's northern Tai Po district on Wednesday, as authorities struggled to bring the blaze under control.
(Reporting by Joyce Zhou and Edmond Ng, Writing by Anne Marie Roantree; Editing by Nia Williams)
