A woman was found deceased and four others were hospitalized following a fire at a high-rise apartment building in central Seoul, Saturday, 26 March, 2022 according to officials. The fire broke out on the seventh floor of the 25-story apartment building in Dongdaemun District at around 12:34 p.m., leaving the 40-something resident on the seventh floor dead, police and firefighting authorities said.
About 72 residents fled or were rescued, with four of them sent to the hospital for treatment after smoke inhalation. The fire was extinguished after a nearly two-hour operation that mobilized 72 firefighting personnel and 20 fire trucks.
Authorities assume the fire started in the living room of the 7th-floor flat where the blaze burnt through the interior entirely and spread to the next door and upper units.
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