HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — An in a single day hearth in an condo construction on a slender alley in Vietnam’s capital killed 14 other folks and injured six others, state media stated Friday.
The condo construction in central Hanoi may simplest be accessed via an alley simply 2 meters (6.5 ft) large, fighting firetrucks from achieving it, and firefighters in the end contained the fireplace via the usage of hoses, state media stated.
The fireplace began round 12:30 a.m. and used to be accompanied via a number of explosions, the Vietnam Information Company stated. It took an hour to extinguish.
Neighbor Nguyen Thanh Trung stated he used to be asleep when he heard the explosions and rushed out to peer what used to be taking place. “I may really feel the surprise at my space,” he stated, including that he along side others were given a ladder to wreck the window to assist other folks get away.
State media reported the construction had 24 citizens on the time, seven within the proprietor’s circle of relatives and 17 tenants. The injured are strong and being handled at Hanoi Delivery Medical institution.
The fireplace began within the small courtyard in entrance of the construction that used to be used as a storage for the sale and service of electrical motorcycles, state media reported.
Trung stated the circle of relatives would steadily fee the motorcycles’ batteries at night time.
The alley used to be later cordoned off via police. The charred stays of burnt motorbikes and crops and scattered assets remained on the condo.
Government stated that they’d give $1,962 to the households of those that died and $1,177 to these injured as reimbursement.
This fireplace used to be paying homage to a September blaze in Hanoi closing yr the place greater than 50 other folks died in identical instances. Rescue operations then had been additionally hindered via the town’s slender lanes.
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AP journalist Aniruddha Ghosal in New Delhi contributed to this file.
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