Hong Kong Residential Building Fire Kills at Least 5 People and Injures Dozens

Firefighters walk past a building called New Lucky House where a fire started in Hong Kong on April 10, 2024. Louise Delmotte/AP Photo

HONG KONG—A fire in a large, mostly residential building in Hong Kong on Wednesday morning killed at least five people and left another 36 injured.

Some 250 residents were rescued from the New Lucky House in Hong Kong’s Jordan neighborhood and the fire was extinguished.