In South Korea, a blaze has swept through a nursing home for the elderly, killing ten people and injuring seventeen others. Officials say the fire in a two-storey building in the south-eastern city of Pohang broke out today. The victims – all women in their 70s and 80s – suffocated from smoke because they were unable to move unassisted. The injured were taken to local hospitals. President Lee-Myung-Bak expressed sadness at the tragedy.