A 34-year-old Chinese national has been referred to prosecutors in South Korea after being arrested for allegedly starting a fire that killed two firefighters at a cold storage warehouse in Wando (a coastal town about 410 kilometres southwest of Seoul) on April 12. The man, reported to be in the country illegally, is accused of igniting epoxy flooring — a highly flammable substance — while using a blowtorch during renovation work at a seafood processing facility, causing a blaze that rapidly trapped and killed two responding firefighters. He had fled to another region before being apprehended, and his supervisor has also been booked on the same charges for bearing shared responsibility in the incident.