SEOUL: South Korean police have launched a probe into a man suspected of accidentally igniting the country’s worst wildfires in history while cleaning his relatives’ gravesites, an investigator said on Sunday (Mar 30).
More than a dozen fires have been fanned by high winds and dry conditions, killing 30 people and burning more than 48,000ha of forest, the worst of its kind recorded in South Korea, according to the interior ministry.
In North Gyeongsang province’s Uiseong – the hardest-hit region with 12,800 hectares of its woodland affected – a 56-year-old man was suspected of mistakenly starting a fire while tending to his grandparents’ gravesites on Mar 22, an official from the…