SEOUL, South Korea — Rescue employees were combing through the charred ruins of a factory structure near South Korea’s capital to discover any more fire victims Tuesday, a day after a ravaging blaze mostlikely triggered by blowingup lithium batteries eliminated 22 individuals, mainly Chinese migrant employees.
More than 100 individuals were working at the factory in Hwaseong city, simply south of Seoul, when the fire tore through it Monday earlymorning. Security cams revealed smoke engulfing the second-floor worksite of the factory, quickly after stimulates were spotted from a website where lithium batteries were kept, fire authorities stated.
One victim was pronounced dead at a healthcenter, and fire employees obtained 21 bodies from the factory one by one lateron Monday. Eighteen victims were Chinese, 2 were South Korean and one was Laotian. The citizenship of one of the dead was being confirmed.
Many Chinese individuals, consistingof ethnic Koreans, have moved to South Korea to discover tasks because China and South Korea developed diplomatic ties in1992 Like other migrant workers from Southeast Asian nations, they frequently work in factories, building websites and diningestablishments, interesting in the so-called “difficult, hazardous and unclean” tasks that are avoided by more upscale South Koreans.
Chinese Ambassador Xing Haiming checkedout the factory website on Monday night and supposedly revealed acknowledgements to the victims. Police were drawingout DNA samples from the dead bodies and their poten