2 dead, 50 injured in public bathhouse fire

Two men were found dead and about 50 others injured on Tuesday morning as a fire broke out at a public bathhouse in the southeast of the country, local media said. The fire started at 7:11 am from the men’s bathhouse on the fourth floor of a building in Daegu city, 240 kilometers southeast of Seoul. The fire was put out in around 20 minutes, but smoke billowed into other facilities of the seven-story building. Two men, estimated to be in their 60s, were found dead inside the bathhouse. About 50 others inhaled smoke and were taken to nearby hospitals. Among the injured, one was in a critical condition. The sevenstory building is composed of restaurants on the first and second floors, bathhouses on the third and fourth floors and residential units on the fifth to seventh floors.