Hong Kong - November 27, 2025 The death toll from the Hong Kong apartment complex fire that began on Wednesday has risen to 128 with as many as 200 missing, officials have said, as rescue operations were declared over. Firefighters were combing through the high-rises on Friday morning, attempting to find anyone alive after the massive fire that spread to seven of eight towers in one of the city’s deadliest ever blazes. Throughout the morning more people arrived at the Kwong Fuk Estate community centre, adjacent to Wang Fuk Court, to identify the bodies being pulled from the gutted buildings. Few names of the dead have been released to the public yet. Rescue crews were prioritising apartments from which they received more than two dozen calls for assistance during the fire but were unable to reach, Derek Armstrong Chan, a deputy director of Hong Kong Fire Services had told reporters. SHOTLIST View from the scene on 27 November. [Credit: X/pcmarriott]