The explosion of the oil tank at the factory killed three people...a series of fires

[Anchor]
An oil tank exploded at a waste battery treatment company in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang Province, killing one person and injuring two others.

Besides, there were a series of fires everywhere.

Reporter Song Jae-in reports on the weekend accident.

[Reporter]
White smoke rises fiercely in the middle of the city center in Buk-gu, Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province.

Smoke that grows threateningly over time,

At around 1:10 p.m., the fire at a shopping mall near the northern market of Yeongildae was extinguished only after burning both buildings.

Fortunately, no one was hurt as 10 people, including merchants, urgently fled, but many citizens had to wipe out their surprised hearts by the smoke covering the residential area.

[Jeong Hee-seop / Fire Witness: It's a neighborhood close to a residential area. People gathered (at a nearby department store), so I watched it (together) and there was a lot of fire and smoke.]

Earlier, an explosion fire broke out at an oil tank of a waste battery treatment company in Hallim-myeon, Gimhae-si, Gyeongsangnam-do.

An employee of a repair company who fell 10 meters from the height of the explosion was taken to the hospital, but eventually died, and two other employees are also being treated at the hospital.

Police believe the accident occurred while they were repairing a fan mixing waste oil in the tank.

In the afternoon, the laundry on the first floor of a three-story building in Eungbong-dong, Seoul also caught fire and was all extinguished in 50 minutes.Two people in building

were evacuated and no one was injured.

I'm Song Jaein of YTN.


Video Editing; Ahn Hong-hyun
Provided by the screen; reported by viewers such as Jung Hee-seop, Gyeonggi-do Fire and Disaster Headquarters