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Fire Rips Through South Korean Hospital, Killing Dozens Of Patients

The blaze broke out in an emergency room in the southeastern town of Miryang. Many of the fatalities were elderly patients and at least one doctor and two nursing staff were also killed.
Rescue workers remove a survivor from a hospital fire on Friday in Miryang, South Korea.

At least 37 people are dead and dozens injured following a Friday morning fire that broke out in a hospital emergency room in Miryang, a town in

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