'Just silence': Families mourn elderly loved ones after Hong Kong inferno

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More than a third of the inhabitants of Wang Fuk Court, the subsidised housing complex that went ablaze, were over the age of 65. HONG KONG: The last message Chris Wong received from her 72-year-old mother was a kindly reminder to wrap up warm as colder temperatures hit Hong Kong. A couple of hours after her post in the family WhatsApp group, the frail woman's high-rise apartment block was a towering inferno. She is among 200 people missing in a tragedy that has claimed at least 128 lives .

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