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		</div><p>At least 36 people have been killed after one of South Korea’s worst fires in years broke out at a construction site near the capital.</p>
<p>Officials said the death toll could rise because more people were believed to be trapped inside the warehouse that was under construction in Icheon, just south of Seoul.</p>
<p>The blaze erupted early in the afternoon and hundreds of firefighters took several hours to put it out.</p>
<p>Park Soo-jong, an official from the Icheon fire department, said 25 workers were pronounced dead at hospitals and the bodies of 11 others were recovered at the site.</p>
<p>Ten others are being treated for injuries at nearby hospitals. Officials said about 30 workers managed to escape but at least four were unaccounted for or out of contact.</p>
<p>Officials are investigating the cause of the fire, which was possibly triggered by an explosion while workers were working on an underground level at the site.</p>
<p>South Korean President Moon Jae-in called for officials to mobilise <em>“all available resources”</em> in the search and rescue operation while Prime Minster Chung Sye-kyun visited the site to inspect the efforts.</p>
<p>South Korea, one of Asia’s richest economies, has struggled for decades to improve safety standards and change widespread attitudes that treat safety as subservient to economic progress and convenience.</p>
<p>Icheon was the site of another massive fire in 2008 when 40 workers died at a refrigerated warehouse.</p>
<p>Forty-six people died in 2018 when a fire ripped through a small hospital with no sprinkler systems in the southern city of Miryang.</p>
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