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1 killed, 14 injured in S Korea's multifamily house fire

Seoul, Aug. 13 (UNI) One man was killed and 14 others were injured in South Korea's multifamily house fire, Yonhap news agency said Wednesday.
The fire broke out around midnight in the parking lot on the first floor of the four-story multifamily house in Seoul.
A man in his 70s and a woman in her 20s were taken to a hospital in cardiac arrest, but the man died.
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