Police Conduct Additional Search and Seizure at Site Office of 'Icheon Logistics Warehouse Fire' (Update)

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[Asia Economy Reporter Song Seung-yoon] The police are conducting additional raids on the site office and other locations related to the fire at the Icheon logistics warehouse construction site, which resulted in 38 deaths.

The Icheon Fire Investigation Headquarters of the Gyeonggi Southern Provincial Police Agency conducted a raid on the construction company's site office and the offices of related construction firms at the new logistics warehouse construction site in Moga-myeon, Icheon City, on the 4th. Through this raid, the police plan to secure materials related to the construction design and execution to verify any violations of relevant laws.

On the 30th of last month, the police also conducted raids at five locations across four companies, including the headquarters office of Han Express Co., Ltd., the building owner, in Seocho-gu, Seoul; the headquarters office of Geonwoo Co., Ltd., the construction company, in Cheonan, Chungnam; as well as the supervision and design firms.

To date, the police have conducted two joint on-site inspections to determine the cause of the fire. Two rounds of detailed searches for remains have also been carried out. As a result of these two detailed searches, the police recovered a total of 57 items, including six human remains and 14 mobile phones, which had been lost. Some of the remains that had not been found previously were all recovered during the second search.

Separately from the detailed searches, the police plan to conduct an additional joint on-site inspection with related agencies such as the fire department on the 6th to determine the cause of the fire. Although the police and six related agencies conducted two on-site inspections over two days on the 30th of last month and the 1st of this month, they have not yet identified the cause of the fire.

The police also plan to conduct autopsies on five of the deceased today. Once these autopsies are completed, autopsies on all 18 subjects designated for examination will be finished.

The fire occurred at 1:32 p.m. on the 29th of last month at the new logistics warehouse construction site in Moga-myeon, Icheon City. The fire spread throughout the entire building along with explosions, resulting in the deaths of 38 workers and injuries to 10 others.

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