Brutal Street Brawl Erupts Late at Night in Pyeongtaek

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A park in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, turned into chaos last night (October 3). Foreign nationals engaged in a group brawl using wooden sticks and steel pipes. Police have arrested two individuals and are tracking down others who fled.

Reporter Dong Eunyeong has more.

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A park in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province.

In the dead of night, a group of men chases down a single person and beats him with wooden sticks.

[Stop! (You're all on camera.)]

As the voluntary crime prevention patrol approaches blowing whistles, the men drop their wooden sticks and scatter in all directions.

The report that around 10 foreign nationals of Central Asian nationality were fighting in the park was received at around 11:30 PM last night.

They had gathered at another park about 350 meters away, but after being dispersed by the patrol unit, they reportedly moved to a different location to continue the fight.

[Park Jun-woo / Pyeongtaek Dogok-ri Pureun Voluntary Crime Prevention Patrol Member: They took things like wooden sticks and steel pipes out of their cars and came in swinging. We blew our whistles continuously to threaten them and pushed them back to make them scatter.]

The group fighting in the park fled in vehicles upon the police's arrival.

Some individuals even entered a nearby convenience store and asked to hide inside.

Police arrested two foreign men in their 20s at the scene, one from Kyrgyzstan and one of Russian nationality, and it was found that both sustained injuries and are receiving treatment at a hospital.

Nearby residents cannot hide their anxiety over the group brawl that broke out in the middle of the night.

[Nearby Resident: They were beating each other up over there, it's terrifying. ((Fights) happen once in a while. Not very often, but fights occasionally happen in the evening. People from the same country fight each other, smashing cars...)]

Police plan to track down and apprehend the fleeing individuals to investigate the specific details of the crime.

(Video Reported by Yang Jihoon | Video Edited by Oh Young-taek)
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