20 Killed In Fire In Seven-Storey Building In Indonesia's Jakarta

A fire broke out at a seven-storey building in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people, Reuters reported. According to broadcaster Kompas TV, firefighters have managed to bring the fire under control after several hours of operation. Authorities are working to determine the cause of the incident. The fire has been extinguished and efforts are on to find more possible victims inside the building, Reuters quoted Susatyo Purnomo Condro, the head of Central Jakarta police, as saying. The fire erupted on the first floor around midday, Condro said, and then spread to the upper floors. Some of the employees were having lunch in the building at the time while others had left the office, he said. “Now, we are still focusing

on evacuating victims and to do fire cooling,” Condro said.

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The building is the office of Terra Drone Indonesia, which provides drones for aerial survey activities, with clients from those in mining to agriculture sectors.
The company is the Indonesian unit of Japanese drone firm Terra Drone Corporation, according to the company’s website.
Footage broadcast by Kompas TV showed dozens of fire fighters were trying to evacuate the people inside, and some were carrying body bags from the building. Some workers were also seen escaping from the high floors of the building using portable ladders.

Recent deadly blaze in Hong Kong

Recently, a deadly blaze in seven high-rise towers in Hong Kong killed 160 people. Hong Kong officials said that their investigation revealed some of the netting that covered scaffolding used in renovations was not up to fire-safety codes.
The November 26 blaze, which took two days to fully extinguish, started on the lower-level netting covering bamboo scaffolding around one building in the high-rise Wang Fuk Court complex. It then swept inside as foam panels placed over windows caught fire and blew out the glass. Winds carried flames from building to building that all were covered in scaffolding and netting, until seven of eight were ablaze.
Wang Fuk Court, an affordable housing complex completed in 1983, houses around 4,000 residents in 1,984 units. When the fire broke out, all eight buildings were enclosed in green mesh and scaffolding as part of a major renovation project. The fire started from the scaffolding outside one building and spread to six others, Xinhua reported.
With Reuters, AFP, ANI inputs