AN INTENSE FIRE AT AN INDOOR SHOOTING RANGE BURNED 10 people to death, eight of them Japanese tourists, Saturday in Busan, South Korea, the country’s 2nd-largest city. The other two victims were both Korean, one of them the visitors’ tour guide and the other an employee of the business. Six more people are in the hospital with severe burns and it is expected that the death toll will rise. DNA samples are being used to identify the bodies.
AFP
Police and fire officers, along with National Institute of Science Investigation officials, are at the site today trying to determine what started the deadly fire. It began around 2:25 pm in the 2nd-floor shooting range which is located in a 5-story building in the commercial district. Busan firefighters had the fire knocked down in 40 minutes.
Xinhua
Korea Times is reporting that: Witnesses say an explosion was followed by sparks.
“A black column of smoke soared into the sky right after a sudden bang from the shooting range,” Yonhap News Agency quoted witness Keum Seong-hwan as saying. ‘”A group of Japanese tourists ran out of the building with fire on their bodies.”
The Busan Fire Brigade said that this gallery had been warned previously about the high use of toxic soundproofing materials on the walls. These type of businesses are normally without windows, also.
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