More than 100 people were working at the site in Hwaseong city, just south of Seoul, when the blaze tore through it on Monday morning.
Investigators were combing through the charred ruins of a factory building near South Korea’s capital on Tuesday to find the cause of a devastating fire that killed 23 people
Security cameras showed smoke engulfing the second floor of the factory, soon after sparks were detected from a site where lithium batteries were stored, fire officials said. Eighteen victims were Chinese, two were South Korean and one was Laotian. The nationalities of the other two dead were being verified.
Chinese Ambassador Xing Haiming visited the factory site on Monday night and reportedly expressed condolences to the victims.Police were extracting DNA samples from the bodies and their potential relatives to confirm their identities, according to fire officials. Labour officials said the government will separately investigate whether any safety issues were involved in the fire. The factory is owned by battery manufacturer Aricell.
Most of the dead workers were daily labourers so they were unlikely to be familiar with the building’s internal structure, senior fire officer Jo Seon-ho told reporters on Monday.
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