<Anchor>

Today (30th) afternoon, about 11:00 pm, a big fire in an 11-story shopping mall near Suwon Station in Gyeonggi Province is still not getting out. More than 50 people have drunk the smoke.

Baekun reporter, is the big fire now caught?

<Reporter>

Yes, I am at a shopping mall near Suwon Station, and as you can see behind me, there is still smoke and my eyes and nose are so bad.

About 1 hour ago, the first fire was found and the big fire was turned off, but the fire is still under construction.

CCTV shows people hurting evacuation immediately after the fire.

We received 119 reports that fire started near the PC room on the first floor of the building, about 4:10 pm.

Fifteen firefighters and 45 equipment were put into the fire in 15 minutes.

51 people drank smoke, and as smoke spreads to the ground, injured people came up not only on the first floor but also on the third and seventh floors above the ground.

One of them is known to have no major disruption to his breathing because he has recovered his consciousness by CPR.

<Anchor>

At 4 o'clock, the building was quite a lot of people. Was the evacuation done well?

<Reporter>

Yes, this is a mixed-use building with eleven floors above ground and five stories below.

There are office and karaoke rooms, and over 250 people have evacuated from the first floor PC room where fire started.

Let's hear the testimony of the escaped visitor.

[PC room evacuees: There are twenty twenty white smoke. I am suddenly getting smoke as I get older. So (part-time) I was told to leave soon.]

Suwon City also sent a disaster letter to citizens about 30 minutes after the fire was declared to watch the smoke.

(Image coverage: Kim, Myung-koo, Yongjin, Image editing: Lee Jae-sung)