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Firefighters
battle the blaze at a shopping mall in Dongtan, south of Seoul, on February 4,
2017 ©Yonhap (Yonhap/AFP)
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A fire in a South Korea
shopping mall killed four and injured more than 40 others, authorities said on
Sunday.
AFP
report continues:
Police
suspect that sparks from a welding torch might have started the fire on
Saturday in a kids' play area in the mall in Dongtan, a commuter town south of
Seoul.
Two
of the four who died were builders and the others were a mall worker and a
shopper. Most of the 47 injured complained of smoke inhalation.
The
play area was closed at the time of the fire.
Fire
authorities urged builders to follow safety regulations, noting that welding
torches were blamed for past blazes.
These include a December 2008 warehouse fire in the eastern city of Icheon that claimed eight lives and a shopping mall blaze at a bus terminal in Koyang, north of Seoul, which killed nine and injured 60.
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