South Korean police said on Sunday that they had “booked” a man suspected of starting what grew into the country’s largest wildfire, killing at least 26 people and razing thousands of buildings including historic temples.
Authorities believe the man, who is in his fifties, began the fire in southeastern Uiseong County when he performed an ancestral rite by a family grave on 22 March, an official from Gyeongbuk Provincial Police said.
