Seoul, June 24 (UNI) Twenty-two people were confirmed dead and eight others were injured in South Korea's battery plant fire on Monday, according to the fire authorities.
The fire broke out at a primary battery plant in Hwaseong, around 45 km south of the capital Seoul, at about 10.31 am local time.
Kim Jin-young, a local fire station official, said in a televised briefing that rescue workers retrieved the bodies of the 21 missing factory workers who had failed to be reached after the fire outbreak.