Three male members of a family, including a six-year-old boy, died in hospital after being pulled from a burning flat in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district late on Thursday.

Firefighters found the three – a man in his eighties, one in his forties and the boy – unconscious in the flat in an old residential building on Sai Yee Street near Argyle Street shortly after the blaze was reported at around 11.10pm.

A woman in her seventies was also rescued but remained conscious.

All four were rushed to either Kwong Wah Hospital or Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei for treatment. The men and the boy died early on Friday.

Firefighters put out the blaze by around 11.49pm Two cats were reportedly found dead in the flat in Kin Wong Mansion, built in 1963.

Dozens of people were either rescued or evacuated from the building.