Dozens of guests fled from a HCM City hotel in terror on January 5 morning after a mobile phone exploded and caused fire.
At 6:45am, local residents discovered that black smoke was pouring out of a second-floor window of Van An 2 Hotel on Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street. The manager ran to each room to inform the guests. Many guests left their belongings behind in order to escape the hotel quickly.
Van An 2 Hotel
Guests run to the street
Hotel staff tried to put out the fire to no avail. Six fire trucks and 32 fire fighters were sent to the site later and put the fire under control in 30 minutes. No one was hurt but the fire destroyed most of the guests' belongings.
The window of room 201
Initial investigation showed that a mobile phone was charging in room 201 and exploded. The fire spread to the mattress before covering the whole room.
