Firefighters continue to battle blazes at a high-rise apartment complex in Hong Kong, as the death toll rose to 83 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 local time.Authorities did not provide updates on the missing people or how many were still inside the ravaged buildings during their most recent press conference.The latest video showed rescuers searching in some apartments in the dark.
