Sejong: An interior ministry official handling the restoration of online government services following a fire-caused outage fell to his death Friday, authorities said. The official, who had headed a team overseeing the aftermath of the outage, was found on the ground at the government complex in the central city of Sejong around 10:50 a.m., they said.

According to Yonhap News Agency, firefighters who rushed to the scene found him in cardiac arrest and handed him over to the police, but he was later pronounced dead. He is presumed to have fallen from a terrace on the 15th floor of the main government building after having left his phone behind in the smoking room.

The interior ministry expressed condolences and vowed to do its best to handle the aftermath. The fire broke out last Friday at the National Information Resources Service in Daejeon, about 140 kilometers south of Seoul, burning batteries and servers and crippling 647 online government services.