Seven people have been killed and 12 injured in a hotel fire in South Korea, officials said Friday.
The fire broke out Thursday night in the eighth-floor hotel room in the city of Bucheon, about 25 kilometers west of Seoul, the country’s interior ministry said in a statement.
The cause of the fire is not yet clear. According to fire officials, there were no sprinklers inside the hotel because they were not required when the building was completed in 2003.
The nine-story hotel had 64 rooms and 27 guests were staying there when the fire broke out, reports a South Korean news agency. Yonhap. Although the fire did not spread widely in the building, the resulting smoke resulted in loss of life.
Sources: AFP, Reuters