Families voice anger over deadly South Korea hospital fire
Miryang, South Korea, (MILLAT ONLINE):Distraught relatives of those killed in a deadly South Korean hospital fire voiced anger Saturday at what they
perceived as another man-made disaster in Asia’s fourth largest economy, just as it prepares to host the
Winter Olympics.
The huge blaze that erupted at the hospital in the southeastern city of Miryang Friday killed at least 37
people including 34 patients — mostly elderly women — and three medical staff in the country’s worst fire
disaster in a decade.
The fire came only a month after 29 people were killed in an inferno at a fitness club in Jecheon,
a disaster blamed on insufficient emergency exits, flammable finishing materials and illegally parked cars
blocking access for emergency vehicles.