14세기 지어진 600년 된 일 슈리성 화재로 '잿더미' VIDEO: 'It's burned to a skeleton': Shock and horror as inferno consumes Japan's 600-year-old World Heritage site Shuri Castle

'It's burned to a skeleton': Shock and horror as inferno consumes Japan's 600-year-old World Heritage site Shuri Castle


Flames can be seen licking towards the sky earlier in the morning in Japan. The news of fire began with sightings of smoke at around 2.40am when the fire brigade turned up to the castle


The devastating fire has gutted Shuri Castle in Naha, the capital city of the Okinawa Prefecture in Japan 

Firefighters were called to a smoke sighting at 2.40 am local time but have been unable to put out the inferno 

Castle has been burnt down repeatedly and then rebuilt, most notably in 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa  

The Japanese army dug tunnels and entrenched themselves under the castle while allies shelled it for 3 days 




 

14세기 지어진 600년 된 일 슈리성 화재로 '잿더미'


600년 된 세계문화유산인 일본의 한 성곽이 화재로 소실됐다. 


화재는 현지 시각 3시(GMT 오후 3시) 직후 오키나와 고대 류큐 왕국의 자리인 14세기 슈리 성에서 발생했으며, 순식간에 현장에 있던 많은 목조 건물들 사이로 번졌다.


항공 영상은 많은 부분이 완전히 파괴된 것을 보여준다. "그건 그냥 완전 빈껍데기야." 구경꾼 야비쿠 타우미가 충격 받은 상태로 말했다. 


소방관들은 목요일 동이 트자 여전히 화재와 싸우고 있었다. 다친 사람이 있는지 불분명했다.

소방대원들이 12대의 소방차를 대동하고 현지시각으로 오전 2시 30분에 긴급 출동했다.

그들은 그 재난에서 다친 사람이 있는지 아직 말하지 않았다.
오키나와 현 경찰 대변인 료 코치는 '아직 화재 원인은 밝혀지지 않았지만 보안업체 경보가 새벽 2시 30분경에 울렸다'고 말했다.



'본당에서 시작되어 모든 주요 구조물들로 빠르게 퍼지고 있는 것 같다... 소방관들은 여전히 화재와 싸우고 있다.'라고 그가 덧붙였다.
 

황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터

Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor, curator


edited by kcontents


By RYAN FAHEY FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 19:47 GMT, 30 October 2019 | UPDATED: 00:32 GMT, 31 October 2019


A 600-year-old Japanese castle has been gutted by a fire that tore through the World Heritage-protected site, reducing much of it to charred embers.


The blaze erupted at the 14th-Century Shuri Castle, the seat of the ancient Ryukyu Kingdom, shortly after midnight local time (3pm GMT) and quickly spread through many of the wooden buildings on the site.


A building of the Shuri Castle is seen on fire in Naha. A castle in Okinawa listed as a World Heritage site is ablaze after castle guards noticed a security system had sparked the flames 





Aerial footage shows much of the complex totally ravaged. 'It's just a skeleton,' said onlooker Yabiku Taumi. 'It's a shock.' 


Another clip shows glowing hot ember beams as all that remain of the castle's main hall.  

Firefighters were still battling the fire as dawn broke on Thursday. It was unclear if anyone had been injured. 


Though just a city district of Naha today, Shuri was the political and administrative hub of the Ryukyu Kingdom for almost 400 years


The Japanese army had set up base camp under the hilltop fortress during World War 2 and the allies shelled it for three days before the castle finally went up in flames, destroying it almost completely 




The Okinawa prefecture is  a series of separate islands that makes up southern Japan. Before the island was annexed by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1879, Shuri Castle was the centre of political and administrative life for the Ryukyu Kingdom which ruled the islands


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