TAIPEI (AFP): An overnight fire tore through a building in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung on Thursday (Oct 14), killing 46 people and injuring dozens of others in the island's deadliest blaze in decades.
The fire broke out in the 13-storey, mixed-use building in the small hours of Thursday morning, according to officials, raging through multiple floors before firefighters finally got it under control.
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