The police believe it is a small conflict transformed into a fatal revenge.
On April 21, 2025 (KST), a 60-year-old Korean man set fire to two residential buildings in Bongcheon-Dong, Soul, using an improvised “flamefiamme”.
Man, Mr. A.He used a container filled with fuel connected to a pesticide sprayer, creating an effective mechanism similar to a torch to perform the act.
Mr. A was sighted while turning into the neighborhood with his lucky flavor on his bike, trying to set fire to several buildings; A photo of Mr. in Torching to an external wall/a pile of garbage near the external wall of one of the buildings has been circulating online since then, showing it that she wore a hat and a mask to hide its identity.
This building was the place where Mr.’s mother lived and it was a place where she remained often. Thanks to the rapid response of the firefighters, no victims have occurred. However, he moved to a complex of apartments located not too far, giving more potentially lethal fires.
Later it was confirmed that Mr. A died in the complex of apartments he started, while two women on the 70s and 80s who lived on the fourth floor suffered serious wounds after falling while they swallowed the flames. Including residents who inhaled smoking or had respiratory discomfort, the total number of boiled meat amounts to 13.
It was also confirmed that Mr. A had left a will behind.
Considering the method and the tools used, the malicious fire is seen as premeditated. According to the police and other sources, Mr. lived on the third floor of the apartment where the fire occurred until the end of 2024 and had undergone conflicts on the noise between the floors with the neighbor on the upper floor, Lady b.
During the Chuseok Holiday in September 2024, Mr. A went to the unit of the neighbor on the upper floor, where Mrs. B’s entire family had collected, and collected a fight, which intensified in a physical altercation with the neighbor’s son. Although the police were sent later, both sides presented a declaration of non -punishment, therefore no criminal accusations were presented. According to reports, Mrs. B is one of the two seriously injured women.
This accident should be recorded as the second worst tragedy of the apartment since the incendiary case committed in 2019 which left 5 deaths and 17 injured.
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