A fire has swept through a South Korean campsite, killing five people including three children and injuring two.
The dead - from two families - were asleep when the fire broke out on Sunday, ravaging their tent close to an island beach near the western city of Incheon.
"The tent was completely gutted within a minute," Ryoo Hwan-Hyeong, head of the Ganghwa Island fire station, said.
An investigation was underway to determine the cause of the blaze, but firefighters suspect a short circuit in the victims' electric sleeping mat may have triggered the fire.
The two injured included a 43-year-old man, who was sleeping in another tent nearby and a boy.
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