Breaking News: Fire at Hwaseong Arisel Factory... 16 fatalities and 7 with serious and minor injuries confirmed

As of the 24th, the death toll from the fire at the lithium battery manufacturing plant Arisel in Seosin-myeon, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi Province, has been reported as 16.

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A fire broke out at a primary battery manufacturing company located in Seosin-myeon, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do on the 24th, and firefighting authorities are working to extinguish it. [Photo = Newsis]

On the afternoon of this day around 5 PM, Kim Jin-young, the head of the Disaster Prevention Division at Hwaseong Fire Station, announced during a现场 briefing that "through full-scale rescue operations, 15 bodies have been recovered so far."

As of now, a total of 16 people have died, including one man in his 60s who died after being rescued from cardiac arrest earlier that morning. Two people are confirmed to be seriously injured, and five with minor injuries.