Paramedics move casualties out of an office building, believed to be the site of an arson attack, in the southeastern city of Daegu, June 9. Yonhap
A fire apparently caused by arson killed seven people and injured 50 others at an office building in the southeastern city of Daegu on Thursday, officials said.
Police pinpointed a 53-year-old man as the suspected arsonist responsible for the blaze based on CCTV footage. The man was killed at the scene, they said.
The fire started at around 10:55 a.m. on the second floor of the five-story building housing lawyers’ offices in Daegu, about 300 kilometers south of Seoul, according to firefighting officials.
The fire killed seven people, including an attorney and five assistants from a law office on the second floor.
Fifty others were hurt, suffering burns and inhaling smoke, and 30 of them were sent to nearby hospitals. Many others were evacuated to safety.
Police suspect the alleged arsonist set fire to a lawyer’s office handling a case involving him.
Hypocracy under the Moon administration. The anti-US arsonists who set fire 2 times to the MacArthur statue found not guilty. The 1st time, there was not even an investigation. But Taegukki (SK flag) rally person knocking down an illegal, politically-used Sewol tower gets jailed. https://t.co/Mg2TWer0D2
The memorial hall for late President Park Chung-hee is destroyed in a fire on Dec. 1, 2016, in his birthplace in Gumi, some 261 kilometers southeast of Seoul. The fire took place at around 3:15 p.m., and is being investigated as arson, at a time when his daughter, incumbent President Park Geun-hye, is facing strong public pressure to step down in order to take responsibility for an influence-peddling scandal involving herself and her confidante. (Yonhap)
Shown is a capture of CCTV footage released by the Korean Cultural Center in Tokyo on March 26, 2015, on an arson attack on the building in downtown Tokyo earlier in the day. (Yonhap)
A South Korean woman was arrested Thursday on suspicion of setting fire to a wooden training facility at the U.S. military headquarters in Seoul, which injured three people, police said.
The fire, which broke out at 1:39 a.m. Thursday at Yongsan Garrison, quickly spread and burned down four other U.S. command buildings, before it was contained three hours later, police officials said.
Now why was she on post at 1:39AM to begin with?:
Police apprehended a 57-year-old South Korean woman who was wandering around the area after she admitted to initiating the arson attack in protest of “U.S. terrorism.” “I sneaked onto the U.S. base and started the fire with a cigarette lighter to punish (U.S.) terrorism,” police officials quoted the woman, only identified by the initial “K” of her surname, as saying.
If an old mentally deranged women can sneak on to Yongsan imagine who else is on post.
