Fire caused by suspected arson in South Korea kills at least 7
A fireplace attributable to suspected arson unfold by means of an workplace constructing Thursday in South Korea’s Daegu metropolis, killing no less than seven folks and injuring dozens of others, native fireplace and police officers stated.
Dozens of firefighters and automobiles have been deployed and rapidly put out the blaze, which started round 10:55 a.m. native time on the second ground of a seven-floor workplace constructing close to the town’s district court docket.
Seven folks have been confirmed as lifeless, together with an unidentified man who police suspect set the hearth in a lawyer’s workplace. Not less than 41 folks have been harm, principally from smoke inhalation, and 26 of them have been being handled at close by hospitals, stated Park Seok-jin, chief of Daegu’s Suseong district fireplace division.
No different folks have been trapped within the constructing, Park stated.
Jeong Hyeon-wook, an official from Daegu Metropolitan Police, stated safety digital camera footage reveals the suspect leaving his dwelling holding an obvious container with each palms that will have been used to set the blaze. Jeong stated all the lifeless victims have been present in the identical room and that police have been investigating attainable motives.
South Korean media printed photographs they stated have been obtained from witnesses that present smoke rising from the constructing in Beomeo-dong, an prosperous enterprise district in Daegu, which is South Korea’s fourth-largest metropolis and residential to greater than 2.6 million folks.
Different photographs confirmed damaged home windows, which Park stated have been attributable to rescue efforts.
Daegu was the positioning of one of many worst arson assaults in South Korea’s historical past in 2003 when 192 folks died after a 56-year-old man set fireplace on a subway prepare.
