PM pays respects to 2 killed firefighters in Wando

Prime Minister Kim Min-seok on Monday paid his respects to two firefighters killed in a warehouse fire the previous day in the southwestern county of Wando. The firefighters, aged 44 and 30, died Sunday while carrying out rescue operations inside a cold storage warehouse that caught fire earlier in the day. Kim visited their funeral home in Wando, some 360 kilometers south of Seoul, and paid his respects, his office said in a press release.