29 dead in South Korea fitness centre fire December 22, 2017 by shameen Firefighters search for missing persons after a fire broke out in an eight-storey building in Jecheon, 120 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on December 22, 2017. Sixteen people were killed and 22 injured by major fire at a sports centre building in a central city of Jecheon, the fire agency said. AFP Flames and smoke billow from an eight-storey building after a fire broke out in Jecheon on December 21, 2017. AFP Investigators search through an eight-storey building damaged by a fire that killed 29 people and injured 29 others in the southern city of Jecheon on December 22, 2017.AFP Firefighters search through an eight-storey building damaged by a fire that killed 29 people and injured 29 others in the southern city of Jecheon on December 22, 2017.AFP A firefighter searches through an eight-storey building damaged by a fire that killed 29 people and injured 29 others in the southern city of Jecheon on December 21, 2017. AFP Flames and smoke billow from an eight-storey building after a fire broke out in Jecheon, 120 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on December 21, 2017. Sixteen people died and more than 10 others were injured in a fire that engulfed a commercial building in Jecheon on December 21, Yonhap reported. AFP