Authorities on Sunday launched a joint investigation into the fire that killed six workers at a construction site for a luxury hotel in the port city of Busan.

Authorities on Sunday began a joint on-site investigation into a fire at a hotel construction site in the southeastern port city of Busan that killed six workers and injured 27 others.

Twenty-five people suffered minor injuries due to smoke inhalation while 14 others were rescued from the roof. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SEOUL: Six people were killed and seven injured on Friday (Feb 14) by a blaze that ripped through the site of a luxury hotel being built in South Korea's port city of Busan, the National Fire Agency said.

Six people have died in a fire in a hotel resort construction site in South Korea ’s port city of Busan, according to the city’s fire agency, with a helicopter used to pluck some 14 people to safety after they had taken refuge on a rooftop.

Six people died, and dozens more were injured and about 100 people were evacuated after a fire at a hotel construction site in Busan on Friday, according to the Busan Fire Headquarters. The fire broke out at the Banyan Tree Hotel construction site in Gijang-gun,

A fire broke out at a resort complex construction site in the southeastern city of Busan on Friday, killing at least six people.

BUSAN, Feb. 14 (Yonhap) -- Six workers died and 25 others were injured in a fire at a hotel construction site in the southeastern port city of Busan on Friday, authorities said.

Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts has been appointed to manage the property once construction is completed. It’s currently owned and developed by a non-related and independent South Korean company.

A fire at the Banyan Tree Hotel construction site in Busan, South Korea, resulted in six deaths and seven injuries.

Four people died and two more are in cardiac arrest as of 1:20 p.m. Friday due to a fire at a hotel construction site in Busan.