DM Monitoring
GWANGJU: At least nine people were killed and eight seriously injured in South Korea when a five-storey building, which was in the process of being demolished, collapsed suddenly onto a bus, officials at a local fire station said.
The accident happened on Wednesday afternoon when the bus was stopped on the street next to the demolition site in Gwangju, some 270km (168 miles) southwest of the capital, Seoul, officials at the Gwangju Fire and Safety Headquarters said on Thursday. Dramatic television footage showed the bus, which had 17 people on board, being buried in debris and smothered by a huge cloud of dust as the structure gave way.
