A deadly inferno has torn through a massive housing complex in Hong Kong, killing at least 83 people with many more still missing, in the city’s worst disaster in decades.

Police investigators have been searching the charred shells of the tower blocks to gather evidence and determine the cause of the fire. Bodies of some of the victims are believed to remain inside the buildings. The fire broke out in a large housing complex in Tai Po, a residential district in the northern part of Hong Kong.

As of Friday morning, the death toll from the tragic fire in a Hong Kong housing complex exceeded 120, according to published reports. The Tao Po district blaze is mostly under control, but several people who were in the two-thousand unit complex are still missing.

A blaze that ripped through a massive apartment block in Hong Kong has claimed at least 94 lives, surpassing the toll of a similar incident at London's Grenfell Tower in 2017.

After Beijing reshaped the political order in Hong Kong in its image, the fire has become a test of how well that new system can govern in a crisis.

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According to Chief Fire Officer Todd Hutchinson, space heaters account for 43 percent of all heating fires in homes and 85 percent of related deaths. If you use a space heater during winter, you must provide 3 feet of clearance in any direction and make sure it's on a flat, stable, non-flammable surface, he says.