The fire started at lunchtime.
More than three hundred people were trapped today at the World Trade Center in Hong Kong, where at 12:37 local time (04:37 GMT) a fire began to spread, forcing mass evacuations of office workers and customers from the mall.
According to local media, the fire started at lunchtime, with what would have been trapped inside hundreds of people who work in the building, which in addition to offices also houses restaurants and shops.
Firefighters are already working on the evacuation of the skyscraper and extinguishing the fire, which began on the ground floor of the shopping center, an area that was being renovated, the Hong Kong newspaper said. The Standard.
The rotary South China Morning Post add that at least seven people have been injured as a result of the inhalation of smoke and that the authorities decreed level 3 emergencies in a maximum of five levels.
Firefighters have asked those who are now trapped on the upper floors of the building not to try to go down and stay where they are.
Until now, emergency services they have managed to get about 160 people, according The Standard.
But according to the source, at least 60 people are still trapped on the fifth floor and another 100 on the last floor, the thirty-ninth, in outdoor areas.
The building is owned by Sun Hung Kai Properties, consists of 14 commercial floors and 25 offices, and is located in Causeway Bay, one of the main commercial and financial districts of the former British colony.
The spectacular fire It has also caused traffic cuts throughout the entire city. (I)
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