Deadly fire in busy Hong Kong neighborhood

Five people are dead after a fire in a residential building in Hong Kong Wednesday.

News outlets say the early morning fire began at a gym on the first floor of the building in the city’s Jordan neighborhood.

Firefighters extinguished the blaze within an hour after receiving the first distress call. More than a dozen people were injured, and many residents were still in the building calling for help after the fire was extinguished.

Some information for this report came from The Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse.