The police said they expected the death toll of 128 to rise as the authorities began combing through the charred apartment towers.

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The Hong Kong independence activist Tony Chung says he has been granted asylum in the UK, two years after fleeing the Chinese region.

Chung, 24, revealed the news on his Instagram page on Sunday, the day after the former Hong Kong legislator Ted Hui said he had been granted asylum in Australia. Both Chung and Hui are among dozens of pro-democracy activists targeted with arrest warrants and 1m Hong Kong dollar bounties by authorities.

Chung was one of the youngest people to be sentenced to jail under Hong Kong’s draconian national security law, which was imposed by China in 2020 and essentially criminalised dissent in the former British colony.

He posted a photo of a letter from the UK Home Office saying he had been granted refugee status and five years of residency in the UK. “This means that we accept you have a well-founded fear of persecution and therefore cannot return to your country,” the letter said.

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