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The death toll from an indoor shooting range fire in the southern port city of Busan has risen to 12 after Kazunobu Nakao, a 37-year old Japanese tourist who was being treated for severe burns, died of heart failure on Sunday.

A massive explosion, a sudden wall of flame and then pitch dark enveloped the rest area at the shooting range in Busan where a fire killed 10 people, according to a Japanese man who suffered serious burns in the blaze.

Busan police yesterday said they are considering several potential factors that might have caused Saturday's deadly fire at a shooting range, including sparks, a short circuit, or overheating of electric motors designed to move shooting targets.

At Yangsan Hospital in Busan yesterday, Prime Minister Chung Un-chan, kneeling second from right, consoles grieving relatives of the Japanese tourists who died in a fire on Saturday at an indoor shooting range in Busan.

Busan, a port city located at the southern tip of the Republic of South Korea, is now Mumbai's new sister city.

The police yesterday continued their investigation into the indoor shooting range fire which broke out Saturday killing 10 people and injuring six.

Relatives of seven Japanese victims of a fire at an indoor shooting range in Busan, South... The bodies of seven Japanese killed in a fire at an indoor shooting range in Busan, South Korea, were brought back to Japan on Thursday, arriving at Fukuoka airport with family members.

A dispute over compensation is expected for the Japanese victims killed in a shooting range fire in Busan Saturday.

The shooting range in Busan that was gutted in a fatal blaze on Saturday was opened up Wednesday to the press and about 30 family members of the fire's victims.

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With an investigation underway into the cause of a fire at an indoor shooting range here on Saturday, authorities from Korea and Japan are trying to work through cultural and procedural differences in their approach to police work.

Investigators conduct an on-site inspection yesterday at the shooting range in Busan where ten people, including seven Japanese tourists, died Saturday.

Many Korean travel agencies include visits to indoor shooting ranges on the itinerary of Japanese tourists.

BUSAN, South Korea The fire that raged through an indoor shooting range in Busan claimed the lives of seven Japanese, not eight, as earlier suspected, an official at the Japanese Consulate General in the South Korean city said Monday.

A fire at an indoor shooting range in Busan on Saturday claimed the lives of 10 people, including eight Japanese tourists.

BUSAN, South Korea - Eight of the 10 people killed by a fire at an indoor shooting range in Busan, South Korea, were likely Japanese, local fire officials said Sunday.

Twenty relatives of the eight Japanese victims of Saturday's fire at an indoor shooting range in Busan arrived at Yangsan Busan National University Hospital yesterday.

Ten people were killed and six injured after a fire broke out Saturday afternoon in an indoor shooting range in Busan, South Korea, according to the city police and fire department.