Taiwan:
An overnight fire tore by way of a developing in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung on Thursday, killing 46 persons and injuring dozens of other folks, officials mentioned.
The blaze broke out in the 13-storey, mixed-use developing in the smaller hours of Thursday morning, according to officials, raging by way of various floors ahead of firefighters lastly got it beneath manage.
“The fire caused 41 injuries and 46 deaths,” Kaohsiung’s fire division mentioned in a statement to reporters.
Pictures published by Taiwan’s official Central News Agency showed smoke billowing out of the building’s windows as firefighters desperately attempted to douse the flames applying extendable hoses.
Most of the deaths had been on floors seven to eleven which housed residential apartments, fire officials mentioned. The initially 5 floors had been for industrial use but had been unoccupied.
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