Hospital fire kills 21 in South Korea

At least 21 patients and a nurse have been killed after a fire swept through a hospital in South Korea.
Most of the patients who died at the hospital in Janseong county, south of the capital Seoul, were in their seventies and eighties, Yonhap news agency said, citing police and fire officials.
Around 30 bedridden patients were trapped by "choking fumes" on the second floor of an annex building, while 10 patients on the first floor managed to escape, the report said. One nurse was on duty at the time and was among the dead.
An officer with the Jangseong Fire Department, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that most of the victims died after suffocating on poisonous gas.