A fire that broke out in a suspected fire broke out in an office building in the South Korean city of Daegu on Thursday, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens more, local fire and police officials said. Dozens of firefighters and vehicles were deployed and quickly extinguished the fire, which started around 10:55 a.m. on the second floor of a seven-story office building near the city district court. Seven people have been confirmed dead, including an unidentified man suspected by police of setting fire to a lawyer’s office. At least 41 people were injured, mostly from smoke inhalation, and 26 of them are being treated at nearby hospitals, said Park Seok-jin, head of the fire department at Daegu’s Suseong district. FIREFIGHTERS ARE STILL WORKING TO DOWN THE FANTASTIC FIRE IN CONTAINER BANGLADESH South Korean rescue teams and firefighters are working at the site in Daegu, South Korea, on Thursday, June 9, 2022. At least seven people were killed and dozens more injured Thursday in a fire that broke out in an office building in Daegu, South Korea. fire department and police. (Lee Mu-yeol / Newsis via AP) (Lee Mu-yeol / Newsis via AP) No other people were trapped in the building, Park said. Jee Hyeon-wook, a Daegu Metropolitan Police official, said security camera footage showed the suspect leaving his home holding an obvious two-handed container that could have been used to set fire. Jeong said all the dead were found in the same room and that police were investigating possible motives. US AND SOUTH KOREA MAKE IMPRESSIONS OF MILITARY VICTORIES INTENSITY IN NORTH KOREA Officers are checking the fire scene in Digu, South Korea, Thursday, June 9, 2022. Several people were killed and dozens others were injured on Thursday in a fire that spread to a office building in DaGou, South Korea. (Lee Mu-yeol / Newsis via AP) (Lee Mu-yeol / Newsis via AP) South Korean media published photos that they said were taken from witnesses showing smoke coming out of the building in Beomeo-dong, a prosperous business district in Daegu, which is South Korea’s fourth largest city and home to more than 2.6 million people. South Korean police and firefighters patrol the site of a fire in South Korea’s Daegu on Thursday, June 9, 2022. Many people were killed and dozens more injured Thursday in a fire that broke out in the Daegu South Korean office building. fire department and police. (Park Se-jin / Yonhap via AP) (Park Se-jin / Yonhap via AP) BOAT PRINTED IN THE FLAME AT ILLINOIS MARINA, MULTIPLE INJURIES Other photographs showed broken windows, which Park said were caused by rescue efforts. CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION Daegu was the site of one of the worst arson attacks in South Korean history in 2003, when 192 people were killed when a 56-year-old man set fire to a subway train.
