Monitoring Desk
SEOUL: At least 41 people were killed and 80 others were injured after a huge blaze tore through a South Korean hospital on Friday.
The six-storey structure building is a nursing home as well as the hospital.
According to report, the death toll rose rapidly throughout the morning, as those initially pulled from the blaze succumbed to their injuries.
Fire chief Choi Man-Woo told media that two nurses said they had seen fire suddenly erupting in the emergency room.
He added that all the patients had been brought out, he said, adding that many victims were from the first and second floors of the hospital, some died on their way to another hospital.
South Korean President Moon Jae-In called an emergency meeting with advisers and demanded an immediate probe into the cause of the blaze.
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