Deaths and Injuries Due to Hotel Fire in South Korea
Seven people were killed and 12 others injured on Thursday due to a fire that broke out in a hotel in Bucheon, west of Seoul, South Korea’s capital, according to firefighting and police authorities.
The “Yonhap” news agency reported that the fire started in a room on the eighth floor of the nine-story hotel on Thursday evening. Among the injured, three people sustained serious injuries, but their condition is not critical.
Two people died after jumping from windows onto an inflatable mattress set up by the firefighting teams, while a woman found in cardiac arrest on the hotel stairs was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Most of the victims were found in rooms, staircases, and hallways within the hotel.
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Firefighters extinguished the fire, which did not spread to the entire building, but the rising smoke caused a large number of casualties, according to authorities.
The hotel has 64 rooms, and the estimated number of guests in the building when the fire broke out was about 27. Fire authorities deployed approximately 70 fire trucks and 160 firefighters to the scene.
In June, 23 people died in a massive fire at a lithium battery factory in South Korea, one of the worst industrial disasters the country has experienced in years.
