Massive Fire In Hong Kong Skyscraper, No Casualties
A skyscraper below creation withinside the coronary heart of Hong Kong`s anciental buying and traveler district turned into left scorched on Friday through a big fire, with government announcing the blaze have been in large part extinguished.
An AFP journalist on the scene noticed blackened concrete partitions and the tattered stays of bamboo-and-tarpaulin scaffolding across the constructing on Friday morning, as municipal people swept roads easy of particles.
Officials stated the hearthplace in Tsim Sha Tsui at the city's harbourfront turned into "in large part placed out" through 8:30 am nearby time (00:30 GMT) on Friday, 9 hours after it first erupted.A principal phase of the neighbourhood's essential Nathan Road thoroughfare -- one in every of Hong Kong's essential delivery lifelines -...