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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol leaves after visiting the site where a massive fire at a lithium battery factory killed at least 22 people in one of the country's worst factory disasters in years. IMAGES
Around 20 bodies have been found at a South Korean lithium battery factory after a massive blaze, the Yonhap news agency says, with firefighters still searching the building. According to one firefighter, over 100 people were working in the factory when workers heard a series of explosions from the second floor, where lithium-ion batteries are inspected and packaged. IMAGES
Kuwaiti security forces and ambulances gather outside a residential building which was engulfed by a deadly fire in Kuwait City. More than 35 people were killed and dozens injured in a building fire in an area heavily populated with foreign workers, the interior ministry said. IMAGES
Police are on the scene near the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand train station in Paris after French police shot and wounded a woman who was making threats, a police source told AFP. According to witnesses the woman, who was completely veiled, shouted "Allahu akbar" ("God is Greatest") and "made threats", the source said, adding that "police fired because they feared for their safety". After passengers on a suburban train alerted police, agents managed to "isolate" the woman at the Bibliotheque Francois Mitterrand station on the capital's south bank, the source said. IMAGES
Images from the scene of a deadly building in Johannesburg, South Africa, where more than 50 people have died. The blaze engulfed a five-storey building in on Thursday, the city's emergency services said. IMAGES