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Added on the 08/01/2019 08:44:53 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A construction site for a Hong Kong high-rise is engulfed in flames, with firefighters on the scene battling the blaze. Officials say the fire broke out at 11:11pm local time (0311 GMT) in the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui, a busy shopping and tourist district on the city's world-famous harbourfront. IMAGES
Images from outside a Hong Kong skyscraper - the World Trade Centre - where firefighters are working to rescue some 300 people sheltering on the roof of the building after a fire broke out inside the building located in a bustling shopping district. IMAGES
Images of a petrol station and a fuel tanker on fire in Freetown, Sierra Leone, following a massive explosion that has killed at least 92 people. According to witnesses, the accident happened when a vehicle caught fire at a petrol station after a road accident. The flames then spread, burning people in cars and on roads nearby. IMAGES
Smoke billows from the property of the fuel tanker owner after angry Lebanese storm the site and set fire to the building following an explosion that killed at least 20 people and wounded nearly 80 others when a fuel tanker exploded in Lebanon's northern region of Akkar. IMAGES
Hong Kong police fire pepper ball rounds at protesters in the city's commercial district ahead of a debate in the legislature over a law that bans insulting China's national anthem. A few hundred protesters chanted slogans during a lunchtime rally in the city's Central district but dispersed when officers fired multiple rounds of irritant-filled pellets, AFP reporters on the scene said. IMAGES
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