Rescue operations are ongoing for victims of a massive fire at a Jakarta shopping mall, as the death toll rises to six. The fire broke out at Glodok Plaza in Taman Sari, West Jakarta on Wednesday night. Six bodies have been brought to the Police Hospital (in East Jakarta) to be identified, while 14 people are still missing.
The fire at one of Jakarta ’s oldest malls, Glodok Plaza, was extinguished on Thursday morning but cooling efforts were still ongoing as of Friday.
“Six bodies have been brought to the Police Hospital to be identified,” head of Jakarta Regional Disaster Management Agency Isnawa Adji said on Friday, as quoted by local media platform Kompas. “Nine survived the fire, thank god they are all in good condition although they were in shock and had difficulty breathing after being rescued,” a senior official from West Jakarta’s fire department, Syariduddin, told the media on Thursday, as quoted by the Jakarta Post.
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