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Seven folks have been killed and a dozen injured after a fireplace broke out within the South Korean metropolis of Bucheon.
Two folks died after leaping onto an air mattress offered by the fireplace division, after the mattress flipped.
Other victims have been present in rooms on the eight ground, the place the fireplace is believed to have began.
Although the fireplace didn’t unfold all through the constructing, the injury was in depth because the rooms weren’t geared up with sprinklers.
The nine-storey resort was inbuilt 2003, earlier than the requirement for sprinklers was written into legislation, in accordance with town’s fireplace division.
The fireplace was first reported at 21:39 native time (14:26 BST) and was extinguished by 22:26 on Thursday, the division stated.
