Damaged subway trains are seen at a subway station in Seoul on May 2
The Republic of Korea (RoK) suffered its second serious transport accident in just over two weeks on Friday when a subway train in the capital, Seoul, crashed into a train at a station, injuring 200 people although no one was killed.
Most of those hurt in the mid-afternoon accident on Friday appeared to have suffered minor abrasions, according to emergency officials at Sangwangsimni station in the east of the capital, although one person was being treated for a brain hemorrhage and one for a fracture.
“An incoming train crashed into one that was stopped at the station,” fire department official Kim Kyung-su told a news conference. About 1,000 people were evacuated, Kim said.
Seoul Metro official Chung Soo-young said the accident was caused by a signal failure and that two subway cars were derailed.
On Friday, an announcement on the train telling passengers to remain where they were was widely ignored. Many passengers forced open the train doors and jumped down onto the track to get away, witnesses said.
Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon was at the scene of the crash. The metro is operated by the city of Seoul.
The country is still mourning the victims of a ferry accident on April 16, when 300 people were killed or are missing in the submerged hull of a capsized ship in the country’s worst disaster in 20 years.
(Source: Reuters)
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