South Korea suffered more than a dozen major wildfires over the weekend. The fires killed 24 people, forced 27,000 to evacuate, and burned more than 17,000 hectares of land.
Acting President Han Duck-soo said the fires continued to burn on Wednesday, causing “unprecedented damage.”
The weekend’s fires were second only to the massive blazes of April 2000 in their size and intensity, and some observers believe they will be judged even worse after all of the damage is tallied. At least 30 distinct fires were raging after the disaster began on Friday, and eight of them were still going strong on Wednesday.
The Korea Herald reported that the fires appear to have been started by “simple mistakes,” such a spark from a
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