{"id":88325,"date":"2014-05-28T18:09:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T14:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=88325"},"modified":"2014-05-28T18:09:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T14:09:23","slug":"fire-at-south-korean-hospital-for-elderly-kills-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=88325","title":{"rendered":"Fire at South Korean hospital for elderly kills 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/south-korea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-88324\" alt=\"south-korea\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/south-korea.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/south-korea.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/south-korea-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/south-korea-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>A fire broke out at a South Korean hospital for the elderly early Wednesday, killing 21 people &#8212; most of them patients in their 70s and 80s who had difficulty walking.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that after examining video footage, they had detained a patient suffering from dementia whom they suspect of starting the blaze in the southern county of Jangseong.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who is in his early 80s and was identified only by his surname of Kim, denies causing the fire, said Roh Gyu-ho, the head of Jangseong Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>Although the fire was put out quickly, many of the victims, unable to move around easily, were believed to have been killed by asphyxiation from toxic fumes that filled the second floor of the two-story building.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty patients and a nurse died, the National Emergency Management Agency said, and eight people were injured, six of them seriously.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the hospital, Lee Hyong-seok, apologized Wednesday in front of television cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire broke out at a South Korean hospital for the elderly early Wednesday, killing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":88324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}