Fifteen pain after combat aircraft falls by accident

Fifteen People in South Korea were injured, two of them seriously, after a couple of combat planes Eight bombs accidentally fell in a civil district Thursday During a military exercise of living fire, local media reported.

The incident that involved the KF-16 aircraft of the Air Force, in the city of Pocheon, near North Korea, was part of the southern routine exercises to maintain the preparation of the fight against possible attacks from the north.

The South Korean Air Force said he was investigating the incident and apologized for the damage, adding that he would provide compensation to those affected.

While the shells of living shooting exercises sometimes land near civil residences, they rarely cause injuries.

According to local media reports, two people suffered fractures in the neck and shoulders.

A 60 -year -old who was driving when the explosion occurred had a shrapnel housed on his neck, Yonhap reported.

“I was driving when I heard a ‘bang’,” they said. “When I woke up, I was in an ambulance.”

“Our KF-16 (combat plane) threw abnormally eight MK-82 bomb shells. He landed out of the shooting field,” said the Korean Air Force in a statement to the BBC.

The army said that the pilot of one of the planes entered the wrong coordinates by mistake, which caused the bombs to fall into the civil community.

The researchers have not yet determined why the second plane left their bombs, the army said, added that all the exercises of living fire will be suspended.

A building and church houses were also damaged as a result of the incident.

The images published in the local media show a broken window of a building and a damaged roof of the church.

A local resident told Yonhap that he had been watching television at home when the explosion, which sounded “like thunder,” he shook the house.

The director of a Center for Care of nearby people said that the windows of the building broke and that one of his teachers was taken to the hospital with injuries. While the elderly were not injured, they said: “They were so scared that we send them all home.”

The Pocheon authorities told the BBC on Thursday on Thursday that residents had been evacuated while a pump removal team worked to safely eliminate any without exploiting bomb.

But the authorities then said they did not find unspecified bombs on the scene, Yonhap reported.

The Ministry of Defense said the training on Thursday was related to a joint simulation with US forces.

South Korea and the United States will execute combined exercises from March 10 to 20, the first from the return of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to the White House. This comes at a time when the two countries increasingly distrust the growing alliance between North Korea and Russia.

During another South Korean team and the United States in 2022, the troops fired a short -range ballistic missile that worked badly and crashed into a golf course in the military base. While the eyes did not explode, it still exploded in flames and panic through residents in the area.