HONG KONG — A major fire tore through multiple high-rise towers at a housing estate in Hong Kong on Wednesday, killing at least four people, officials said.

Police received multiple reports of people trapped in the estate, where bamboo scaffolding has been erected outside several towers as they undergo renovation, local media reported.

Five others were injured, three of them critically, in the fire at Wang Fuk Court in the northern district of Tai Po, the Fire Services Department said.

At least one firefighter was killed Yeung Yan Kin, Hong Kong's director of fire services told a news conference.

Ho Wai-ho, 37, "sustained burns to his face," Yeung said, adding that he was rushed to a nearby hospital after first aid and CPR was administered. He later died, Yeung said.

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