SEOUL: Fire swept through part of a shanty town in the South Korean capital, Seoul, on Friday (Jan 20), destroying 60 homes, many constructed from cardboard and wood, and forcing the evacuation of around 500 people. Emergency services took five hours to put out the blaze, which erupted before daybreak in G
SEOUL: Fire swept through part of a shanty town in the South Korean capital, Seoul, on Friday , destroying 60 homes, many constructed from cardboard and wood, and forcing the evacuation of around 500 people.
Ten helicopters and hundreds of firefighters, police and troops joined the effort to put out the blaze which, according to officials, razed almost one in ten of the 600-plus homes in Guryong. "So I knocked every door nearby and shouted 'fire!' and then called 119," she said, giving only her surname. Firefighters battle a fire at Guryong village in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan 20, 2023. About 500 South Koreans were forced to flee their homes after a fire spread through a low-income neighbourhood in southern Seoul on Friday morning and destroyed dozens of homes. The government had unveiled plans for redevelopment and relocation after a huge fire in late 2014, but those efforts have made little progress amid a decades-long tug-of-war between landowners, residents and authorities.
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