Firefighters battled a blaze at a highrise apartment complex in Hong Kong for a second day on Thursday, fire officials said, as the death toll rose to 94 in one of the deadliest blazes in the city's modern history.

More than 70 people were injured, including 11 firefighters, along with the 94 dead, according to the city's Fire Services Department.

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.

Officials said firefighters were still working on a handful of apartments and trying to enter all of the units in the seven towers t

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