Village Bus Crashes Into Building After Striking Pedestrian... Store Owner Devastated

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Last night, on the 7th, a village bus crashed into a building in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, injuring eight people. Earlier today in Yeosu, Jeollanam-do, a tourist boat carrying a family capsized, leaving two people found in a state of cardiac arrest.

Reporting by Dong Eunyeong.

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The steel door of a shop is severely mangled, and the glass window of the neighboring store is shattered to pieces.

At around 8:00 PM last night, a village bus crashed into a building in an alley in Hongje-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul.

It was found that the bus collided with a passenger car at a nearby intersection before speeding for about 100 meters into the alley, consecutively hitting a taxi, a streetlamp, another passenger car, and a building before finally coming to a stop.

[Park Haeng-ja / Affected Store Owner: They say the shop cannot be restored and has to be shut down. They say it could collapse at any moment. I've been running it for 10 years. I had many regular customers, so I couldn't move the location.]

The accident left eight people injured, including a woman in her 50s walking through the alley who sustained serious injuries.

The bus driver, a man in his 70s, reportedly stated during police questioning that the brakes failed after the initial collision.

Police have booked Mr. Lee on charges of professional negligence resulting in injury under the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Settlement of Traffic Accidents and are investigating the exact circumstances of the incident.

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The Coast Guard cuts through the water to approach a woman.

[Rescue of the drowning person complete.]

At around 9:55 AM today, a report was received that a motorboat had capsized off the coast of Odongdo in Yeosu, Jeollanam-do.

A total of five people were on board, including the captain and a family of four.

Immediately after the accident, three family members were rescued safely, but the captain in his 60s and his daughter in her 20s were found in cardiac arrest.

(Video reporting: Jang Woon-seok and Lee Byeong-ju | Video editing: Park Ji-in | Design: Park Tae-young | Footage provided by: Yeosu Coast Guard)
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