Hong Kong mourns victims of deadly building fire

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00:00Across Hong Kong, a city that rarely slows, silence has taken over.

00:07A territory mourning its deadliest fire in decades.

00:11Residents lay flowers at the site where more than 100 lives were lost, and many remain missing.

00:22There are human errors, wrong decisions being made, greedy people,

00:27and they caused the death of over 120 people.

00:31I have no more tears to shed.

00:34At the government headquarters, the flag was lowered to half-mast

00:38as officials and civil servants observed a minute of silence.

00:44The fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon, racing through seven of the eight 32-story towers,

00:51all wrapped in bamboo scaffolding, green mesh, and foam insulation for ongoing renovations.

00:59As the search for survivors stretches into another day,

01:03residents mobilise nearby to support those who've lost their homes.

01:07I'm just a handle for the mass store.

01:10They are doing the, like, the woman's napkin,

01:14and we are having a store for food or for some other necessities.

01:20Rather than all the daily necessities,

01:23I think they need the support from us, yeah, from all the Hong Kong people.

01:27With the death toll still expected to rise,

01:31disaster victim identification teams are now able to enter the charred blocks

01:35to recover more bodies.

01:37Authorities say fire alarms at the estate,

01:40home to about 5,000 people, were not working properly.

01:44Eleven people so far have been arrested as part of an investigation

01:47into suspected corruption and the use of unsafe materials.

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