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37 killed in hospital blaze in southern South Korea
Sejong Hospital in Miryang didn’t have sprinklers fitted

THIRTY-SEVEN people were killed yesterday in a fire at a South Korean hospital, which also left 143 injured.

A doctor, a nurse and a nursing assistant were among those killed in the blaze at the Sejong Hospital in Miryang, a city with 110,000 residents in the south of the country.

No sprinklers were fitted at the hospital, whose director said that South Korean law does not require them.

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