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Ahead of the Lunar New Year’s Day, the family got together to fight a battle, and butane gas exploded, injuring seven people.
On the Gyeongbu Expressway, three vehicles collided one following another, leading to a vehicle fire.
Reporter Ji-in Kim organized the news of today’s incident.
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An apartment in Mangwon-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul.
At around 1pm today, a portable butane gas exploded on the 5th floor.
[유민석/목격자]
“It’s like throwing objects in the house… Maybe it’s because people are screaming when I see you…”
This is the house where an elderly couple in their 70s lived, and during the Lunar New Year, the family gathered to fight, and seven women from the family including a grandmother in their 70s and seven women in their 40s and teens were injured.
One person had minor injuries, but six people suffered burns to their face and hands and were taken to hospital.
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“All the injured are women…and daughter-in-law. It is estimated that there are second-degree burns.”
Fire officials believe that 13 members of the family were gathered and the explosion was caused by carelessness.
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This morning, the Gyeongbu Expressway in Habuk-myeon, Yangsan.
A white car with red lights on is stopped in the middle of the highway.
A car traveling in the direction of Seoul might not slow down in a congested section, so it collided with a car in front of it, and the car collided with an SUV once more.
No one was injured, but the car that caused the accident caught fire, causing property damage estimated at 12 million won by the fire department.
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In Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, a fire broke out in a detached house, and the fire spread to a pile of wood piled up in the yard.
It took over an hour to put out the big fire and there was a lot of smoke, but the owner of the house evacuated urgently and there were no casualties.
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Wildfires continued across the country.
In Nam-myeon, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do, a fire that was burning rice fields moved to a mountain and was extinguished in 2 hours and 20 minutes.
There was also a forest fire in Choryang-ri, Sacheon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, and two firefighting helicopters were dispatched and extinguished in 40 minutes without casualties.
This is Kim Ji-in from MBC News.
Video coverage: Na Kyung-woon / Video editing: Jo Min-woo / Video provided by: Gyeongbuk Fire Department, Busan Police Agency, Korea Forest Service, viewers Ji-hye Kang, Sang-hyun Ji, Ja-byeong Koo
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