TOKYO, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed after a fire broke out at a private-room sauna in central Tokyo on Monday, police and fire officials said.
At around 12:25 p.m. local time, emergency services received a call reporting that an alarm was sounding at a sauna located on the third floor of a five-story building in Akasaka.
According to the Tokyo Fire Department and the Metropolitan Police Department, part of the interior wall in one of the individual sauna rooms was burned, and the fire was extinguished about an hour later.
A man and a woman, believed to be customers in their 30s, were found unconscious inside the room and later confirmed dead at the hospital.
A representative of the facility told the Asahi Shimbun that it had been operating since the morning and the authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident. ■
