At about 2:36 a.m. on the 7th, a fire broke out at a 16th-floor apartment in Wolyeong-dong, Masanhappo District, Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province.
About 70 residents evacuated after the fire started on the third floor of the apartment. Fire authorities put out the blaze at about 3:38 a.m., an hour after it started.
A couple in their 60s were found in cardiac arrest and taken to a hospital.
The apartment where the fire occurred was built in the 1990s. It reportedly was not required to have sprinklers installed.
Police and fire authorities plan to investigate the exact cause of the fire and the extent of the damage.
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