South Korean police have launched a probe into a man suspected of accidentally igniting the country’s worst wildfires in history while cleaning his relatives’ gravesites, an investigator said Sunday. More than a dozen fires have been fanned by high winds and dry conditions, killing 30 people and burning more than 48,000 hectares (118,610 acres) of … Read more
Andong: Walking with a cane, 84-year-old apple farmer Kim Mi-ja surveys the wreckage of her village, which was reduced to rubble and covered in ash by South Korea’s worst wildfires. Kim built her house in Chumok-ri village herself when she first moved there from the city but, like most houses in the area, it was … Read more
Andong: Wildfires in South Korea are now the largest and deadliest on record, having burned more forest and killed more people than any previous blaze, officials said Thursday, as the deaths hit 27. More than a dozen fires broke out over the weekend, scorching wide swathes of the southeast and forcing around 37,000 people to … Read more
Seoul: At least 18 people have been killed in one of South Korea’s worst wildfire outbreaks, as multiple blazes broke out in the country’s southeastern region over the weekend, causing unprecedented damage. Thousands of firefighters, aided by the military, are working to douse over a dozen different blazes that are fuelled by strong winds and … Read more