“CANNOT DESCRIBE IT”
Of the 94 people confirmed dead by Friday morning, one was a 37-year-old firefighter and two were Indonesians working as migrant domestic workers.
It is Hong Kong’s deadliest fire since 1948, when an explosion followed by a fire killed 135 people.
But the toll could yet rise, with city leader John Lee saying in the early hours of Thursday that 279 people were unaccounted for. However, firefighters said later that they had established contact with some of those people.
Firefighters said later that they had made contact with some of those people and authorities have not updated the figure since.
Police at a nearby community centre, hoping to identify victims, showed photos of bodies pulled from the fire to people seeking missing loved ones.
“If the faces are unrecognisable, there are personal items for people to identify,” said a woman surnamed Cheung who was looking for her relatives.
“I cannot describe my feelings. There were children,” she said.
Source: CNA
