Hong Kong: Death toll in high-rise fire rises to 146 as more bodies found in burned buildings

The death toll from a fire that tore through a Hong Kong apartment complex has risen.

Investigators are searching for bodies in the residential towers of Wang Fuk Court , where the blaze erupted on Wednesday.

Authorities say 146 bodies have now been found, rising from a previous reported total of 128.

Shuk-yin Tsang, the head of the Hong Kong police casualty unit, said another 100 people remained unaccounted for.

Flames spread through seven of the eight towers of the complex, and the fire was not fully extinguished until Friday morning.

Police said they had completed searches through four of the affected buildings.

But a city official said they expected the search process to take three to four weeks.

Cheng Ka-chun, the police officer leading the search, said bodies had been foun