Village Bus Crashes Into Building, Injuring 8; Tour Boat Capsizes in Yeosu

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Last night, a village bus crashed into a building in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, injuring eight people. Earlier today, a tour boat carrying a family overturned in Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, leaving two people found in a state of cardiac arrest.

Reporter Dong Eunyeong has the details.

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The store's iron door is severely crushed, and the glass window of the neighboring shop is shattered into pieces.

At around 8:00 PM yesterday, an accident occurred in an alley in Hongje-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, where a village bus plowed into a building.

The bus is understood to have first collided with a passenger car at a nearby intersection, rushed about 100 meters into the alley, and finally stopped after successively hitting a taxi, a streetlamp, another passenger car, and the building.

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

The accident left eight people injured, including a woman in her 50s who was walking through the alley and suffered severe injuries.

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

Police have booked the driver, surnamed 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 cause of the accident.

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

[Rescue of the drowning person is complete.]

At around 9:55 AM today, a report was received that a motorboat had capsized off the coast of Odongdo Island in Yeosu, South Jeolla Province.

A total of five people were aboard the vessel, including the captain and a family of four.

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

(Video Reported by: Jang Woon-seok, Lee Byung-joo | Video Edited by: Park Ji-in | Design: Park Tae-young | Footage Provided by: Yeosu Coast Guard)
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