The body was so badly damaged that it was not immediately possible to determine the identity of the deceased, and it will take several days to confirm the identity through an autopsy.
The cause of death will be determined through an autopsy, and DNA samples will be taken to confirm the identity of the deceased. Most of the deceased were found as burned bodies at the scene, and the damage to the bodies was relatively severe.
DNA will be collected from the epidermis, which is the least damaged part of the body. Police confirmed the nationalities of the 23 people, including the dead and one missing person, based on the list of factory workers at the time of the fire. Five were Korean, 17 were Chinese, and 17 were Korean.
The deaths are two Koreans and one Laotian. A police official said, "We plan to send the personal information of the deceased to the consulate." To date, the identities of the deceased are two Koreans.
One Korean man in his 30s was found in cardiac arrest at the scene of the fire, but later died. The identity of a man in his 40s who had naturalized in South Korea from China was also identified through fingerprints taken from the body recovered from the scene.
Meanwhile, a fire broke out at 10:30 a.m. yesterday at an Aricell factory in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, which manufactures lithium batteries, leaving 22 workers dead and eight injured. One person is still missing.
The fire started on the second floor of the third building of the factory when a lithium battery caught fire and spread. The victims were inspecting and packaging finished lithium batteries.
He said.
2024/06/25 12:08 KST
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