Latest: 37 killed in South Korean hospital fire

Latest: A fire has raced through a small South Korean hospital with no sprinkler system, killing 37 people, many of them elderly, and injuring more than 140 others.

Update 12.25pm: A fire has raced through a small South Korean hospital with no sprinkler system, killing 37 people, many of them elderly, and injuring more than 140 others.

Sejong Hospital in the south-eastern city of Miryang has a separate nursing ward where 94 elderly patients were being treated, but all of them were safely evacuated, fire officials said.