What the records say
- When
- 26 Jan 2018
- Kind
- Fire
- Coordinates
- 35.48° N, 128.77° E
- Description
- fire at the Sejong Hospital in the city of Miryang, South Korea
- Deaths
- 39
- Injured
- 151
Miryang hospital fire
Fire at the Sejong Hospital in the city of Miryang, South Korea
On 26 January 2018, a fire at the Sejong Hospital in the South Korean city of Miryang killed 41 people and injured 153. It was South Korea's deadliest fire in nearly a decade. The fire occurred one month after 29 people died in a gym fire in the city of Jecheon. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “韓國密陽世宗醫院發生火災,發生於1樓急診室,最少39人死亡。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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