The site of the Gwangju collapse that had been forgotten during the Lunar New Year holiday… Rescue and search continued for the 22nd day

I-Park collapse site in Hwajeong-dong, Seo-gu, Gwangju[사진=연합뉴스 ]

22 days have passed since the collapse of the new apartment building in Gwangju, but the rescue of the buried and the search for the missing are still ongoing.

On the 1st, the pan-government central accident management headquarters and the regional accident management integrated countermeasure headquarters were mobilizing 17 people, 37 vehicles, 4 lifesaving dogs, and 4 drones to conduct rescue and search activities at the site.

In order to rescue the construction workers buried on the 27th floor, two 1 ton
A search for better missing persons is also carried out on the 25th to 28th floors, in the central part where each bedroom of the 12th apartment unit has a designated intensive search area, and the corner where the 2nd household’s living room is located.

On the 11th at 3:46 pm on the 11th, in Hwajeong I-Park Residential Complex Apartment Building 201 (4 stories below the ground and 39 above) of HDC Hyundai Industrial Development, the internal structures and parts of the exterior walls of 16 floors from the 23rd to 38th collapsed at once and the 6 people have gone missing

Earlier, on the 14th, the first victim was recovered in an underground space, and on the 31st, an additional buried person was recovered. The heavy recovery team is currently continuing the search for one buried person and three remaining missing persons found on the 27th floor.

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