Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in years has burned into Thursday morning as the city’s leader confirmed that at least 40 people, including a firefighter, had died and another 279 were reported missing.

The Hong Kong high-rise fire, which spread across multiple buildings in a large residential complex, has killed dozens, with hundreds reported missing. The confirmed death toll is now 44, with close ...

Dec. 2 (UPI) --Hong Kong's leader, John Lee, on Tuesday, ordered the creation of an independent committee to investigate a high-rise fire that killed more than 150 people. The committee will be led by ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader John Lee has said that 36 people were reported killed in the fire that spread through a dense high-rise residential housing complex Wednesday, and that another 279 ...

The Hong Kong blaze is the city's deadliest since the Garley Building fire in Kowloon in November 1996, which killed 41 people Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. Peter PARKS ...