Foreigners Fall From Motel While Attempting Escape Using Bedding Rope

Two foreign nationals who entered Korea for employment as crew members fell from a lodging facility in Busan while attempting to escape, leaving one dead and one injured.

According to the Busan Sasang Police Station, the incident occurred around 3:00 a.m. today (July 21), when two Indonesian nationals, a person in their 20s identified as A and a person in their 30s identified as B, fell from the 8th floor of a motel in Gamjeon-dong, Sasang-gu.

As a result of the fall from a height of approximately 21 meters, A died, and B was transported to a hospital with serious injuries, including a fractured leg.

It is reported that the two attempted to escape using a rope made by tearing the motel room's bedding.

They had entered Korea yesterday (July 20) for the purpose of working as crew members and were waiting in the motel room with 18 other crew members before boarding a ship bound for China.

The room door was reportedly locked from the outside in accordance with an agreement between the workers and the recruitment agency.

An official from the Sasang Police Station stated, "We have transported the remaining crew members to the police station for protection," adding, "We plan to investigate whether there were any structural issues regarding the locking of the room door from the outside."

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