4 dead, 4 seriously injured in truck crash in Sunchang

• Published date: 08 March 2023
• Publication title: The Korea Times

A small truck rammed through a crowd of about 20 people in the southwestern county of Sunchang on Wednesday, leaving four people dead and four others seriously injured.

The 1-ton truck carrying fertilizer crashed into the crowd in the parking lot of a local agricultural cooperative building in Sunchang, 244 kilometers south of Seoul, at 10:30 a.m. while an election for a cooperative head was under way. The victims were waiting in lines to cast ballots

The accident left four people dead, including an 80-year-old person, with 16 others injured, four of them seriously. They were all sent to the...