Seven people in South Korea were injured, four of them seriously, after a fomely jet accident dropped by eight bombers in a military personnel in a fire.
The incident involving the Air Force KF-16 aircraft occurred around 10:04 local time (01:04 GMT) in the town of Pocheon, near the North Korean border.
Only one bomb is believed to explode. A bomb with a bomb-working bomb at the safe throw of other seven unknown bombs, the Pocheon authorities told BBC. They say residents living nearby the area are evacuated.
While shells from live firing exercises sometimes land near civilian residents, they rarely cause harm.
According to local media reports, two people suffer from fractures on their neck and shoulders.
A 60-year-old drive when the blast has already occurred the shrapnel inhabited their neck, Yonhap reported.
“I drove when I heard a ‘Bang’,” they said. “When I wake up, I’m in an ambulance.”
“Our KF-16 (jet fighter) abnormally falls into 8 mk-82 bombs. It went outside the firing range in a statement of BBC.
Said the incident was evaluated and apologized for the damage, adding a conference to those affected.
Yang UK, a military expert and a research associate with the Ayan Institute for policy studies, told BBC as if bombs are lower than planned “.
A building of the Church and houses were also damaged because of the incident.
Local media published images show a broken window in a building and damaged roof of the Church.
A local resident told Yonsip that he looked at the house television in the blasting house, which was meant to be “like a Thunderclap”, shook home.
The director of a nearby Senior Citiz Cifile Center says windows broken and one of their teachers are carried at the hospital with wounds. As the old people have no hurt, they said, “They are so afraid we have sent them all home”.
The Defense Ministry says training on Thursday is related to a joint drill with US forces.
South Korea and US are scheduled to run joint drills from March 10 to March 20 – the first from US Donald Trump president. It comes in a time when two countries increasing the growing alliance between North Korea and Russia.
During another joint drill in South Korea and the US in 2022, the troops fired a short ballistic missile with nothing and falling into a golf course at the military base. While the warhead did not explode, it still blasts the flames and sent panic rippling to residents in the area.
