{"id":17667,"date":"2025-02-14T11:40:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T05:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=17667"},"modified":"2025-02-14T11:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T05:55:29","slug":"four-dead-in-fire-in-south-korean-port-city-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/four-dead-in-fire-in-south-korean-port-city-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Four dead in fire in South Korean port city: officials"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SEOUL, Feb 14:<\/strong>\u00a0Four people have died and four more were injured in a fire in South Korea’s southern port city of Busan on Friday, the National Fire Agency said.<\/p>\n

The fire started just before 11:00 am (0200 GMT) at a construction site at the Banyan Tree Hotel, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Around 10 workers were on-site at the time, local media said.<\/p>\n

Six of them experienced “cardiac arrest”, a National Fire Agency official told AFP, with four now confirmed dead.<\/p>\n

Four others sustained injuries and the fire has yet to be fully extinguished, the official added.<\/p>\n

The fire is believed to have started on the first floor of the construction site where workers had stored insulation materials, a fire department told reporters.<\/p>\n

South Korea’s acting president Choi Sang-mok ordered relevant ministries to “fully mobilise all available personnel and equipment to extinguish the fire,” according to the finance ministry.<\/p>\n

“Every effort must be made to prevent casualties during search and rescue operations, while also ensuring the safety of firefighters,” Choi said.<\/p>\n

The incident comes just weeks after an Air Busan plane caught fire at the Gimhae International Airport, prompting 176 to evacuate and leaving seven injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SEOUL, Feb 14:\u00a0Four people have died and four more were injured in a fire in South Korea’s southern port city of Busan on Friday, the National Fire Agency said. The fire started just before 11:00 am (0200 GMT) at a construction site at the Banyan Tree Hotel, authorities said. Around 10 workers were on-site at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-overseas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17670,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17667\/revisions\/17670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}