Winter Olympics 2018: Massive fire breaks out near athlete and media villages in Pyeongchang

Gangneung: A fire close to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics athletes’ and media villages caused concern on Thursday before the blaze was brought under control with no casualties. [caption id=“attachment_4341713” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Smoke rises from a cafe after a fire in Gangneung, South Korea. Reuters[/caption] Smoke billowed from an apartment block between the athletes’ and media village and close to the Kwandong Hockey Centre, prompting authorities to send a warning to the mobile phones of people in the area. But an official from POCOG, the Games’ organising committee, told AFP: “It was a small fire and it was put out with no harm to any people.” One day before the opening ceremony, Games organisers are also scrambling to contain a norovirus outbreak which has hit at least 86 people so far, none of them athletes.