Seoul, South Korea – When trained on Thursday, two South Korean fighter jets accidentally removed eight bombs on a civilian, damaging at least eight people, said officials. One report put numbers on 15.
The 500-pound mouse-82 bombs issued by KF-16 fighter jets fell behind and caused civic damage, the air force said.
The Air Force noted that it will create a commission that will investigate why it happened to the accident and studied the scale of civilian damage. It says that fighter jets took part in the air force joint fire exercises with the army.
Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters
The incident took place at around 10 p.m., Agence France-Presse reports.
The unknown air force official told local journalists that the pilot of one of the KF-16s was in the wrong system for the bombing. The undiscovered official of the Ministry of Defense also said that journalists needed more examination to find out why the second KF-16 was also thrown into the civilian territory.
The content of the briefing of the officials spread with the foreign media.
The air forces apologize and expressed hope for the rapid recovery of the victims. It says that it will actively offer compensation and other necessary steps of the manual.
The accident occurred in the town of Pokheon near the hard armed border North KoreaA number
Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters
In a televised briefing, Yang-Hun called “Horrible” with bombings and called on the Armed Forces to stop digging in the city until it's reliable steps that could prevent repetition. He said that the tail, 140,000 people, provided three main firing points for South Korea and US militants.
The military says it was decided to suspend direct fire exercises in Pocheon, but “Reuters” news agency did not say that there were no major south-Korean military exercises to start on Monday.
Pyrenek described as a jointly drilled with US Armed Forces. But the South Korean Ministry of Defense could not confirm it immediately.
The Pokheon Disaster Response Center reports that six civilians and two soldiers were injured and treated in hospitals. Four of the wounded, all civilians, who were in serious condition, say the center. Two of the serious wounded are foreigners, one from Thailand, and the other from Myanmar.
The local fire agency said in a statement that 15 people were wounded and two serious, Reuters reported.
Three houses were partially damaged together with the Catholic Church and the greenhouse, but they apparently hit 2 bombs according to the Pocheon Center.
The residents of the area have been an alarm for years about the possible danger of nearby training plots, Reuters notes.
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