SEOUL: A fire in a football training centre dormitory at a South Korean elementary school killed eight children and injured 17 people, police said yesterday.
The blaze around midnight on Wednesday was swiftly extinguished, but those killed and injured inhaled toxic fumes and suffered severe burns, a police officer at the nearby Chonan police station, 80km south of here, said.
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