Officials said they were still investigating the cause of the fire, which engulfed Sejong Hospital with flames and thick smoke. The fire, they said, erupted in the hospital’s main building.
Firefighters and hospital workers evacuated patients from an annex that operated as a nursing home, carrying some of them on their backs.
Fire officials said more than 70 people were injured, a number of them seriously.
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