Six killed in construction site blaze


Six people were killed and more than two dozen were injured when a blaze ripped through a hotel construction site in the South Korean port city of Busan, the National Fire Agency said.

The fire started just before 11am yesterday at the construction site of the Banyan Tree Hotel, authorities said.

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