A fire broke out at a nine-story apartment tower in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Tuesday night, resulting in more than 50 casualties, the country’s state-run news media said.
The Hanoi police announced the figure, which includes dead and injured, hours after the blaze in the capital’s Thanh Xuan district, the Dan Tri newspaper reported on Wednesday morning.
The exact death toll was not immediately clear, but Dan Tri reported that many of the 54 people who had been hospitalized after the fire had died.
Officials said the cause of the blaze was under investigation.
The building has 45 households, and many residents were there when the fire started around 11:30 p.m., the official Vietnam News Agency reported.
Persons:
Dan, Dan Tri
Organizations:
Hanoi police, Dan Tri, Vietnam News Agency
Locations:
Hanoi, Vietnam, Thanh Xuan