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Desperate Plea Amid Hong Kong's Deadliest Fire

  • Prize
    Gold in Press/General News
  • Photographer
    Tyrone Siu, Hong Kong
  • Date of Photograph
    November 26, 2025
  • Studio
    Reuters

Wong, 71, reacts in despair, shouting that his wife is trapped inside the building as flames engulf Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, Hong Kong, China, on November 26, 2025— his last phone call with her, just moments before. The inferno, Hong Kong's worst fire in nearly 80 years, has claimed 159 lives with 31 still missing.

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