About 200 people were displaced by a fire Friday that ravaged through a low-income town in southern Seoul, with firefighters putting out the blaze about eight hours after it began, officials said. The fire broke out at around 5 a.m. in the Guryong village, one of the last-remaining shanty towns in Seoul, before being extinguished at 1:28 p.m. No casualties have so far been reported. The fire had quickly spread to other parts of the village, prompting authorities to evacuate 258 people from the area. Some 180 residents are presumed to have lost their homes in the fire. The Seoul city government has set up a temporary shelter at a nearby middle school. Authorities deployed a total of 1,258 personnel and 106 pieces of firefighting equipment to the scene after receiving an initial report of a fire at an unoccupied house. They plan to investigate the exact cause of the blaze. Fire authorities suspect the flames spread quickly as the houses in the area are built with flammable materials, such as thermal cotton and plywood. The Guryong village is located on the fringes of Gangnam, known for the c