The skies over Tai Po turned black with smoke, as 36 lives were lost and nearly 300 feared missing after a catastrophic fire ripped through a Hong Kong residential estate.
The fire erupted in the sprawling Wang Fuk Court housing complex in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong. Within hours, multiple 31-storey towers were engulfed, creating a scene of chaos, despair, and desperate rescue efforts. The blaze destroyed homes, shattered lives, and plunged an already strained city into grief.
