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On the evening of September 26, a fire broke out at the National Information Resources Administration of Korea in Daejeon City, South Korea, which once caused more than 600 government business systems to stop operating. According to Yonhap News Agency, citing the South Korean government's news on October 3, an official of the South Korean Ministry of Administration and Security responsible for commanding the National Computing Network Failure Emergency Response Working Group and restoring the government business system fell to his death that day.
According to reports, at about 10:50 a.m. that day, near the central building of the Central Government Sejong Office Building, the official A was found lying unconscious. The fire department rushed to the scene and found that A had no heartbeat, and then handed him over to the police, who was confirmed dead. A left his mobile phone in the smoking area on the south side balcony of the 15th floor of the Central Building that day, suspected of committing suicide by jumping off a building.
The Ministry of Administrative Security of South Korea expressed its condolences to the deceased and pledged to do its utmost to deal with the aftermath.
Earlier, South Korean media citing the fire department said that about 20:20 on September 26, the lithium-ion battery explosion in the computer room of the National Information Resources Administration 5th floor caused a fire, until about 6:30 on the 27th, the fire was basically controlled.
South Korea's executive security minister and central disaster security response general minister Yong Hewei said on Tuesday that the government will take the seven-day Mid-Autumn holiday as the "golden time" for repairing the administrative network system, accelerating the repair work in a tremendous way.
Yonhap mentioned that so far, the police have opened investigations against four people involved in the fire. A police official revealed to the media that A was not listed as a person related to the case or an object of investigation.
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