Factbox - How does the Hong Kong tower fire compare to other recent building blazes?


People lay flowers near the site to mourn the victims of the deadly Wednesday fire at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong's New Territories, on Saturday, Nov 29, 2025. -- AP Photo/Chan Long Hei

EAST ASIA/SOUTH-EAST ASIA (Reuters): A blaze that ripped through a massive apartment block in Hong Kong has claimed at least 128 lives, with 150 people still missing, surpassing the toll of a similar incident at London's Grenfell Tower in 2017.

Here is how the disaster compares to some other major building fire incidents around the world in recent years.

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