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Shuk-yin Tsang, the head of the Hong Kong police casualty unit, said another 100 people remained unaccounted for.
The death toll from a fire that tore through a Hong Kong apartment complex has risen.
Investigators are searching for bodies in the residential towers of Wang Fuk Court, where the blaze erupted on Wednesday.
Authorities say 146 bodies have now been found, rising from a previous reported total of 128.
Police said they had completed searches through four of the affected buildings.
But a city official said they expected the search process to take three to four weeks.
Now the authorities are investigating whether fire codes were violated amid growing public anger over the blaze.
Beijing has warned it will use a national security law to crack down on any “anti-China” protests that result.
