00:00South Korean police recently announced that they will seek the arrest of a woman
00:04about 20 years old, accused of being responsible for a fatal fire in a residential building
00:10in the city of Ozan, in the north of the country.
00:13The reason?
00:14A disastrous attempt to eliminate a cockroach.
00:18The resident is accused of causing the fire in an attempt to kill the insect using what
00:23we can call it an improvised flamethrower.
00:25The incident shocked the community and unfortunately resulted in the death of one person and left
00:31eight others injured.
00:33The disaster occurred after the resident tried to eliminate the cockroach inside her apartment using
00:38a combination of flammable spray and a lighter.
00:42As reported by the British newspaper BBC, the flames, as expected, spread
00:48uncontrollably, quickly consuming the apartment and reaching other floors of the
00:53building with 32 residences.
00:55The fatal victim of this tragedy was a resident, a 30-year-old Chinese citizen.
01:02His death occurred in a desperate manner.
01:05She fell from her apartment window while trying to escape the fire and thick smoke that
01:09blocked the building's stairs.
01:12There was, however, an act of heroism amidst the chaos.
01:15The woman and her husband managed to save their two-month-old baby before the fall.
01:22old as he passed it through the window to a neighbor in the adjacent building.
01:26An image of despair and love.
01:29However, when trying to follow the same path, the mother lost her balance and fell.
01:33The husband managed to escape and survived.
01:37In addition to the fatality, eight other people were hospitalized after inhaling smoke during
01:42the panic.
01:44According to local authorities, the woman who started the fire could be charged.
01:49for negligence and manslaughter, since the fire originated directly in his
01:54apartment.
01:55The most alarming thing about her testimony is that the accused admitted to having used the same method
02:00improvised, the spray with a lighter, on previous occasions to exterminate cockroaches.
02:06The police continue to investigate the case.
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