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HONG KONG — The death toll from a massive blaze at the Wang Fuk Court housing complex has risen to at least 94, authorities said Tuesday, as firefighters and rescue teams scoured burned high-rises for scores of people still listed as missing in the city’s worst fire in nearly 80 years.
The fire, which broke out more than 24 hours earlier in the eight-building Tai Po estate, was largely brought under control but not completely extinguished, with occasional sparks and thick smoke still emerging from the charred blocks. Fire…
Super typhoon forces Hong Kong to close schools and businesses
Hong Kong hunkers down as Super Typhoon Ragasa, 2025’s most powerful storm, barrels toward China coast
Hong Kong shut schools, emptied offices and saw frantic supermarket runs on Wednesday as authorities sounded a high-end typhoon alert for Ragasa, the strongest tropical cyclone recorded so far this year. The observatory raised the signal to No. 8 — a warning that typically closes shops and halts much public transport — warning of hurricane-force winds offshore, heavy rain and potentially dangerous storm surge as the storm…