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.
