SEOUL, Dec 25 (NNN-YONHAP) – Two people were killed and 29 others injured, today, in a fire that broke out at an apartment building in Seoul.
The fire occurred at about 4:57 a.m. local time (1957 GMT Sunday), on the third floor of the 27-storey apartment building in Seoul.
Two men in their 30s and a woman in her 70s were taken to hospitals, in cardiac arrest, two of them died later.
During the evacuation, 28 people suffered injuries, such as smoke inhalation, and 20 of them were taken to hospitals for treatment.
The fire was completely extinguished around three hours later, as the fire authorities sent 57 vehicles and over 200 personnel to the scene.
The police and the fire authorities were investigating the cause of the incident.– NNN-YONHAP
