Taiwan's "Zhongshi News Network" and "Central News Agency" reported that the Kaohsiung "city within the city" fire caused 46 deaths, and after the Kaohsiung District Prosecutor's Office investigated and analyzed the case involving Huang Gege, because he was jealous and drunk, he wanted to embarrass his boyfriend by lighting a fire, and poured the unquenched incense ash on the leather sofa of the small suite, causing the room to flash and the first floor to fall into a sea of fire. On the 21st, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutor's Office prosecuted the case on the grounds of "homicide" and "public danger crime" and asked the judge to seek capital punishment.
Screenshot of Taiwan's "Zhongshi News Network" report
According to the report, the prosecution found that Huang Gege's boyfriend surnamed Guo had lived without water and electricity in a small suite next to the tea shop on the first floor of the "City within The City" since August 2020 due to poor economic conditions. Huang and Guo met around August 2021, and the two often called on friends to drink and chat on the first floor of the "City within a City".
The tenants who escaped upstairs alleged that Huang and Guo both loved to drink, and every day they found someone outside the suite to get drunk. Huang is a headache character, often provoking trouble, drunk and unhappy to smash the car and smash the glass, residents and neighbors have long been unable to see but avoid it.
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At about 10:00 p.m. on October 13, 2021, Huang and Guo found two male friends to drink and chat in the suite, and Huang habitually used sandalwood to repel mosquitoes. After three rounds of drinking, Huang suspected that Guo was entangled with his ex-girlfriend, and made a big noise on the spot, and the rest of his male friends saw the flash mob. At about 11 o'clock that night, Guo did not bother to argue with Huang and left for a reason. Huang stayed alone in the suite to drink and spat bitterly at a passing male friend.
At about one o'clock in the morning of the 14th, Huang kept transmitting voice messages to choke Guo, seeing that Guo had not read back, thinking that Guo ran to find his ex-girlfriend again, and when his emotions were out of control, he remembered that Guo had choked her, "There is a kind of you will burn here!" Huang suspected of deliberately pouring the unquenched incense ashes directly on the leather sofa. In less than 15 minutes, the suite was full of smoke, a taxi driver came home from work and found a strange shape, from the glass window of the suite to see the sofa constantly emitting fire and smoke, after the suite glass window was suddenly exploded, the fire was out of control.
The scene of the "City within a City" fire.
The fire burned the suite to the ground. The pictures are from Taiwan's "Zhongshi News Network"
According to the report, in order to extinguish the fire, the fire station dispatched a total of 31 detachments, 72 vehicles and 145 people in the early morning of the same day to rescue them, still unable to prevent the low-rise flames from soaring into the sky, when the entire building was surrounded by the cries of residents crying for help, quite frightening, the ladder car lifted off to shoot water and pull out the survival of the people from the balcony, the scene was like purgatory, the fire burned for an hour and a half, brewing 46 deaths, 41 injuries tragically.
The prosecution said that Huang was quite cunning, interrogated her 13 times without results, her confession was repeated, and at one point she lied about using water to extinguish the fire before leaving, and then lied that all the evidence was thrown into the river, causing the "Coast Guard" Fifth Shore Patrol to send personnel to the water many times without success. Huang geng refused to take a lie detector and did not cooperate with the case at all.
Based on the results of the investigation, as well as relevant witnesses and exhibits, the Kaohsiung District Public Prosecutor's Office found that Huang deliberately ignited a fire in the suite, causing a fire, killing 46 residents, and prosecuted him for "homicide" and "public danger". At the same time, the court was asked to consider that Huang was only suspicious of feelings and resentful, and he was out of control after drinking, deliberately igniting a fire to make trouble to embarrass his boyfriend, and even causing a fire to kill him, coupled with no remorse after committing the crime, and having a bad attitude, Jian asked the court to impose capital punishment and deprive him of public power for life.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Gu Wanquan Text Editor: Lu Xiaochuan Caption Source: IC photo Photo Editor: Xiang Jianying
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