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A fire broke out at a seven-storey building in Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Tuesday with 20 people confirmed dead, Reuters reported citing a local official.
The fire has been extinguished and efforts to find more possible victims inside the building continue, Susatyo Purnomo Condro, the head of Central Jakarta police, told reporters, according to Reuters.
The fire erupted on the first floor at around midday, Condro said, and then spread to the upper floors. Some of the employees were having lunch in the building at the time while others had left the office, he said.
The building is the office of Terra Drone Indonesia, which provides drones for aerial survey activities with clients in the mining to agriculture sectors. The company is the Indonesian unit of Japanese drone firm Terra Drone Corporation, according to the company's website.