Police Detain Man in Deadly Subway Fire
A man lighted a milk carton filled with flammable material in a subway car in South Korea’s fourth largest city, Taegu, today, igniting a blaze that killed at least 35 people and injured 137, police said.
As many as 600 passengers were aboard the train when the fire started around 10 a.m., news reports said. The cable news channel YTN reported that 12 subway workers appeared to still be trapped underground as thick black smoke billowed into the streets. Police were interrogating a 46-year-old man. A motive was not immediately known.
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