21
Dead After Fire at
South Korean Hospice
A
Fire at a
South Korean Hospice killed 21 people and injured seven others on Wednesday, local time, officials said.
Most of the victims were elderly patients in their 70s and 80s who were suffering from Alzheimer's, stroke or other chronic diseases, although one nurse was among those killed, police and
Fire officials said,
according to South Korean news outlet Yonhap. They died
After suffocating on poiso**us gas, officials
told the Associated Press.
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The blaze broke out on the second floor of an annex of Hyosarang Hospital in Jangseong County, around 170 miles
South of Seoul, just
After midnight Wednesday. Officials said 35 patients and the nurse were on the second floor at the time of the fire, which was quickly put out, the AP reported.
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