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Wednesday, February 19, 2003
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THE BATTALION
S. Korea subway fire kills 120
By Soo-Jeong Lee
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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DAEGU, South Korea — Fire raced through two
crowded subway trains in South Korea on Tuesday
after a man ignited a carton filled with flammable
material, killing about 120 people and injuring at
least 138, officials said.
A suspect police said had a history
of mental illness was under interroga
tion in Daegu, South Korea’s third-
largest city. Police still did not know
what motivated the attack or what
substance the attacker used to start the
blaze.
Many of the injured were serious
ly hurt, authorities said.
The fire started in one six-car train
at a station, igniting seats and spread
ing to another train also stopped at the
station, officials said.
Lim Dae-yoon, chief of Daegu
city’s east district municipal govern
ment, estimated the number of people
killed at about 120.
Many bodies were burned beyond
recognition. Officials said they would
have to wait for DNA tests to deter-
Police said about 120 people
were killed and at least 138
injured in South Korea's subway
arson attack Tuesday in Daegu,
its third-largest city.
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SOURCES: ESRI; Daegu Metropolitan AP
Subway; Daegu Metropolitan City;
Associated Press
Chung Sook-jae, 54, rushed to the scene afterhet
daughter, 26-year-old Min Shim-eun, called liei
husband to say she was suffocating. Then the line
went dead.
“She never caused any problems. She was a
good kid. Why does this have to happen her?"
Chung said, crying on the pavement near the scene,
“If she’s not out by now, she’s probably dead.”
Police were interrogating Kira
Dae-han, 56, who witnesses said car
ried the milk carton into the subway
car, according to Kim Byong-hala
police lieutenant in Daegu. Another
police official said the suspect had
been treated for mental illness.
“When the man tried to use a cig
arette lighter to light the box, some
passengers tied to stop him.
Apparently a scuffle erupted and the
box exploded into flames,” the officer
said.
Authorities said the fire was pm
out by l p.m.. about three hours after
it started, but toxic gas in the tunnel
delayed rescue efforts, the Yonhap
news agency said. The acrid odor of
burned plastic still wafted over tk
fire scene hours after the flames had
been put out.
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Qyodae
Daegu
mine an exact number of dead, which could take
weeks.
Other people died of asphyxiation on the train
platform. One man said his missing daughter called
by mobile phone to say there was a fire and the
subway door wasn’t opiening.
Firefighters gave horrifying accounts of the
scene underground: bodies of victims asphyxiated
as they tried to escape up the stairs; on the platform
were the ashen bones of those trapped in the flames.
In the minutes after the fire began, thick blad
smoke billowed out of ventilator shafts of the sub
way. Downtown traffic came to a standstill as ambu
lances rushed to the scene. Orange suit-clad fire
fighters wearing oxygen tanks rushed into the sub
way.
The television station YTN aired footage of Ik
chaotic scene inside a hospital reportedly showi
the suspect being attended to by nurses. Themansai
frowning on a bed wearing a hospital smock, his
face and hands smudged from soot from the fire.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Army sends 20,000
to Persian Gulf
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Defense Department has activat
ed more than 20,000 more Army
troops to be sent to the Persian
Gulf as the U.S. military buildup
continues for a possible war with
Iraq, Pentagon officials said
Tuesday.
Deployment orders signed by
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weekend will send the Army's
3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
and several smaller units to the
area around Iraq, where they will
join about 150,000 other U.S.
forces already in the region.
The other units include an
artillery brigade, a combat sup
port hospital, a chemical
weapons defense company, a
military police unit, "civil affairs"
specialists in humanitarian mis
sions and rear area support units.
Chicago files charges
against club owner
CHICAGO (AP) - The city will
file criminal contempt charges
against the owners of the night
club where 21 people were killed
in a stampede, because a court
had ordered the club to be
closed, Mayor Richard M. Daley
said Tuesday.
Daley rejected the contention
by owners of the E2 nightclub
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lations including failure to pro
vide enough exits.
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into the second-floor E2 dub
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