The South Korean government requires the Hwaseong battery factory where a serious fire occurred and caused heavy casualties to completely suspend production for rectification.

According to news from this website on June 26, according to Yonhap News Agency, the South Korean government department today required the Huacheng battery factory where a serious fire occurred to completely suspend production for rectification. Three officials at the ARICELL factory in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province were charged with violating the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Fatal Accident Punishment Act. Min Jishu (transliteration), head of the Regional Accident Reconstruction Headquarters of the Ministry of Employment and Labor of South Korea, announced the relevant actions taken by the labor department in response to the Arisel factory fire at the Hwaseong fire incident briefing. "We will quickly conduct a thorough investigation, and if any illegal behavior is confirmed, we will take severe measures." According to previous reports on this site, a large fire broke out on the 24th at the lithium battery factory of battery manufacturer ARICELL located in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the police of South Korea have informed our embassy of the casualties of Chinese citizens. According to the latest report from South Korea, 19 Chinese citizens were killed in the incident. Our embassy staff rushed to the scene in Huacheng as soon as possible to further verify the situation. At 10:31 local time, a fire broke out in Building 3 of ARICELL located in Seosin-myeon factory in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province. 35,000 finished lithium batteries were stored in the building. Many batteries exploded, posing huge difficulties to the fire-fighting work. . Considering that lithium is a harmful chemical, the scale of casualties and the fire may further expand, the fire department issued a level 2 response (ordering 3 to 7 fire departments to mobilize 31 to 50 equipment), and dispatched 145 firefighters and 50 equipment to carry out the Firefighting efforts. At around 15:10, after the fire was under control, firefighters began to search and rescue the building.

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