S Korea hospital fire death toll jumps to 41: official media

The death toll from a hospital blaze in the South Korean city of Miryang jumped to 41, Yonhap news said today, in the country's worst fire disaster in more than a decade.

More than 70 were also injured in the fire, which erupted this morning on the first floor of a six-storey building housing a hospital and a nursing home, firefighters said.