The fire at the Christmas apartment in South Korea is suspected to have been caused by cigarette butts
Yang Shuyi. A fire broke out in a 23-story apartment building north of Seoul, the capital of South Korea, in the early morning of Christmas on the 25th, killing 2 people and injuring nearly 30 people. Preliminary investigation shows that this disaster is likely to be caused by cigarette butts.
South Korea's **27** Road, the fire began at 4:57 a.m. on the 25th. More than 220 firefighters were dispatched from the fire department and it took more than three hours to completely extinguish the fire. About 200 residents were evacuated during the entire process.
From the outside, the exterior of the 23-story apartment building has been widely blackened, with about 17 floors affected.
According to Yonhap News Agency, ** disclosed on the day of the incident that there does not appear to be any sign of arson at the scene, and multiple departments will jointly investigate the cause.
*, the fire department and the power safety management department sent people to the scene of the incident on the 26th to investigate, and determined that the fire started on the third floor of the building. Investigators found a cigarette butt and a lighter in the home of a couple in their 70s on the third floor, suspecting that unextinguished cigarette butts had started the fire. The elderly couple jumped out of the window in the fire and managed to escape.
Seoul *** confirmed to ** on the 26th: "We found key evidence at the scene and believe that this (cigarette butts) is likely to be the cause of the fire." ”
The disaster resulted in the death of two men in their 30s. One of the men, surnamed Park, was 33 years old and a fourth-floor resident. At that time, he was holding his 7-month-old daughter, who was wrapped in a bedspread, and his wife was holding his 2-year-old eldest daughter, and jumped out of the window. In the end, the two children survived, but they suffered symptoms such as hypothermia and smoke inhalation, the wife injured her shoulder, and the husband died after suffering a serious head injury and being taken to the hospital.
Another deceased, surnamed Lin, was 38 years old and lived on the 10th floor. (End) (Special article by Xinhua News Agency).