Fire breaks out at multi-storey building in Indonesia's Jakarta, killing 20

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A fire broke out at a seven-storey building in Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Tuesday (Dec 9), with 20 people confirmed dead.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A fire broke out at a seven-story building in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, on Tuesday, with 20 people confirmed dead.

00:10Susatyo Purnomo Kondro, the head of Central Jakarta Police, said the fire has been extinguished,

00:16and efforts were continuing to find more possible victims inside the building.

00:30At this time, we are still focused on the evacuation of the victims and the heat on the top of the building.

00:36Okay, thank you.

00:37Some people were seen escaping from the high floors of the burning building using portable ladders.

00:43The battery is on the first.

00:47The position is on the fifth.

00:51We have prepared the same for the last.

00:53When we are on the second, the gas is on the bottom, so we can't get down.

00:57So we're going to go back to the top, so there's air, right?

01:03So we're going to rooftop, so we're going to rooftop, so we're going to rooftop.

01:06There's a half a day, so the gas is going to get down.

01:10We can't do anything else.

01:12Footage broadcast by Compass TV showed dozens of firefighters evacuating the people inside,

01:18and some were carrying body bags from the building.

01:21The fire erupted on the first floor at around midday, Kondro said,

01:25and then spread to the upper floors.

01:28Some of the employees were having lunch in the building at the time, while others had left the office.

01:34The building is the office of Terra Drone Indonesia,

01:37which provides drones for aerial survey activities with clients in the mining to agriculture sectors.

01:43The company is the Indonesian unit of Japanese drone firm Terra Drone Corporation.

01:49According to the company's website, both companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment via email.

01:56See you all.

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