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HONG KONG — Firefighters battled a blaze at a high-rise apartment complex in Hong Kong for a second day on Thursday as the death toll rose to 75 in one of the deadliest fires in the city’s modern history.

Rescuers holding flashlights were going from apartment to apartment at the charred towers as thick smoke continued to pour out from some windows at the Wang Fuk Court complex, a dense cluster of buildings housing thousands of people in Tai Po district, a northern suburb near Hong Kong’s border with the mainland.

It was unclear how many people remained missing or trapped. Hong Kong leader John Lee said contact had been lost with 279 people early Thursday. Authorities did not prov

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