Police in South Korea plan to question man on suspicion of starting wildfire

Firefighters, members of the National Forensic Service and the Korea Crime Scene Investigation investigate at the scene in Uiseong, South Korea (Kim Sun-hyung/Yonhap/AP)

South Korean police plan to question a 56-year-old man on suspicion of starting at least one of the wildfires that devastated the country’s southern regions, killing 30 people and burning more than 119,000 acres of land.

The North Gyeongsang provincial police department said the unidentified man may have used fire while clearing overgrown grass at a family grave on a hill in the southeastern town of Uiseong, one of the areas hardest hit by the wildfires.