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At least 13 peo­ple have been killed in a fire that has en­gulfed sev­er­al high-rise apart­ment build­ings in Hong Kong, au­thor­i­ties say, with some res­i­dents re­port­ed trapped in­side.

Flames took hold in sev­er­al apart­ment blocks of the Wang Fuk Court es­tate in Tai Po, a dis­trict in the north­ern part of the city, on Wednes­day af­ter­noon be­fore en­gulf­ing oth­er parts of the build­ings.

Fire­fight­ers bat­tled the blaze in­to the night as thick, black smoke bil­lowed from the 31-storey tow­ers and or­ange flames lit up the sky.