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3 Arrested as Hong Kong High-Rise Fire Death Toll Rises to 65

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Firefighters try to extinguish flames engulfing a building after a fire broke out at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong’s New Territories, on Nov. 26 2025. AP Photo/Chan Long HeiAuthorities on Nov. 27 arrested three men on suspicion of manslaughter in relation to Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades, which killed at least 65 people and left hundreds missing, as officials continue rescuing residents from the high-rise apartment buildings involved in the inferno.The fire, which began the previous day in a housing complex in Tai Po district in the New Territories, continued to burn on Thursday.

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