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| People look at an apartment in Seoul's Dongdaemun District that was severely damaged in a fire, March 26. Yonhap |
A woman was found dead and four others were hospitalized following a fire at a high-rise apartment building in central Seoul, Saturday, 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.
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| The interior of an apartment severely scorched by a fire in Seoul's Dongdaemun District, is seen in this March 26 photo. Yonhap |
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.
They were looking into the cause of the fire as well as the exact cause of the woman's death. (Yonhap)
