At least 83 people were killed and 76 injured in a massive fire at a high‑rise apartment complex in Hong Kong, and the death toll is expected to rise, with many residents still missing or critically injured.

According to Reuters, AP, the South China Morning Post and other outlets, the blaze broke out at 2:51 p.m. Wednesday at the Wang Fuk Court complex in the city’s Tai Po District.

Seven of the complex’s eight apartment buildings were engulfed.

Four buildings were largely brought under control within about ten hours, but the other three burned for more than 24 hours.

In a press briefing about 27 hours after the fire broke out, Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said that the flames across the seven buildings were basically under control.

The disaster is the worst blaze since Hong Kong’s handover from Britain in 1997 and the deadliest since 1948, when 176 people were killed in a warehouse fire.