21 Killed in south Korean Fire

A report from South Korea says 21 people were killed and seven injured in a fire early Wednesday at a hospital in the southern part of the country. South Korea's Yonhap news agency also reported that six of the people injured in the hospital fire in Jangseong county are in critical condition. A nurse at the hospital was reported among the dead. Yonhap says most of the patients at the facility were in their 70s and 80s and were bedridden.

© La Voix de l'Amérique - mardi 27 mai 2014