Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
The Daegu subway fire occurred on February 18, 2003, when an arsonist set fire to a train, killing 192 people and injuring 151 others at the Jungangno Station of the Daegu Metropolitan Subway in Daegu, South Korea. The fire had spread across two trains within minutes. It remains the deadliest deliberate loss of life in a single incident in South Korean peacetime history, succeeding the previous record set by a 1982 mass shooting.