Seven injured after South Korea fighter jet accidentally drops bombs happymamay

Seven people were wounded in South Korea, four of them seriously, after a fighter plane accidentally shot down eight bombs in a civilian area during a direct military exercise.

The accident that included the Air Force KF-16 aircraft at approximately 10:04 local time (01:04 GMT) in Bouchon, near the border with North Korea.

Only one bomb is believed to have exploded. Pochon authorities told the BBC: They said that the residents who live near the area had been evacuated.

While shells of live fire exercises sometimes land near civilian housing, they rarely cause injuries.

According to local media reports, two people suffered fractures in their necks and shoulders.

Yonhap reported that the 60 -year -old was driving his car when the explosion was called shrapnel in his neck.

“I was driving the car when I heard” a fuss. “When I woke up, I was in an ambulance.”

The Korean Air Force said in a statement to the BBC:

He said he was investigating the accident and apologized for the damage, adding that he would provide compensation to the affected people.

Yang told the UK, the military expert and research fellow at the Asan Policy Studies Institute, BBC if the bombs did not explode if it was “dropped at a lower altitude than the plan.”

One of the construction of the church and homes was also damaged as a result of the accident.

The photos published on the local media appear a broken window for the building and the damaged church ceiling.

A local population told Yonhap that he was watching TV at home when she shook the explosion, which looked like “Thunderclap”, the house.

The director of the nearby elderly center said to the citizens that the building windows were destroyed and one of its teachers was transferred to the hospital with wounds. While none of the elderly, they said: “They were so afraid that we all sent them home.”

The Ministry of Defense said that the training on Thursday is linked to joint digging with the American forces.

South Korea and the United States are scheduled to manage combined training from March 10 to March 20 – the first since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House. This comes at a time when the two countries are increasingly cautious about the growing alliance between North Korea and Russia.

During other joint exercises by South Korea and the United States in 2022, the forces launched a short -range ballistic missile that crashed and crashed into a golf course at the military base. Although the warheads did not explode, they still explode in fire and sent panic through the population in the area.