(UPDATE) SEOUL — Eighteen Chinese citizens are among the more than 20 people killed in a massive fire at a South Korean lithium battery plant, the fire department said on Monday, one of the East Asian country's worst factory disasters in years.
SEOUL — Eighteen Chinese citizens are among the more than 20 people killed in a massive fire at a South Korean lithium battery plant, the fire department said on Monday, one of the East Asian country's worst factory disasters in years.Over 100 people were working in the facility when workers heard a series of explosions from the second floor, where lithium-ion batteries were being inspected and packaged, firefighter Kim Jin-young told the media.
Firefighters carry a corpse covered by a sheet after extinguishing a fire at a lithium battery factory in the city of Hwaseong, northwestern South Korea, on June 24, 2024. Most of the bodies are badly burned, so it will take some time to identify each one,' he added.Firefighters are still searching for one more person who remains unaccounted for, Kim said, adding that they had managed to contain the largest blaze at the plant and get inside.Firefighters were 'doing cooling operations to prevent the fire from expanding to nearby factories,' he said.
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