Son Jumps to Safety, But Mother Found Dead in Burned-Out Apartment

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Early this morning (Sept. 13), a fire broke out at an apartment building in Buan, Jeollabuk-do. The blaze left a woman in her 40s dead and her 7-year-old son severely injured.

Reporter Jeong Jiyeon has the details on today's holiday accidents and incidents.

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Flames rage inside an apartment unit as thick smoke billows out of the windows.

The exterior wall is scorched black, and the interior is reduced to ashes.

The fire broke out at around 1:00 a.m. today on the third floor of a six-story apartment building in Buan-eup, Buan-gun, Jeollabuk-do.

[Apartment Resident: The alarm kept ringing, so I came out to check, and there were already massive flames and thick smoke everywhere...]

The fire was completely extinguished in about 50 minutes, but a woman in her 40s was found dead inside the home.

Her 7-year-old son, who suffered second-degree burns on his arms and other parts of his body, was found in the apartment building's flowerbed and rushed to the hospital.

Fire authorities believe that when the fire broke out, the son jumped from the third floor down to the first-floor flowerbed, while the mother failed to escape the flames in time.

Police and fire authorities conducted a joint on-site inspection starting this morning.

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Firefighters gather in front of a factory.

The interior is filled with grayish-white smoke.

At around 8:00 a.m. today, a fire broke out at a wood pellet production plant located in Eohyeon-dong, Namwon-si, Jeollabuk-do.

The fire caused 17 workers inside the factory to inhale smoke, three of whom were transported to the hospital.

Fire authorities responding to the report brought the major flames under control after about 4 hours and 30 minutes, and are currently working to extinguish remaining embers.

A fire official explained, "Because there is a lot of wood fuel inside the factory, it is taking some time to put out the remaining embers."

Fire authorities believe the fire started from machinery inside the factory and are investigating the exact cause of the fire and the scale of the damage.

(Video Provided by: Gwon Mantek / JTV, Video Edited by: Park Ji-in)
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