Four killed in the collapse of the road in South Korea | News

A high part of a highway under construction collapsed in Anseong, killing or injuring all 10 workers present.

Four people were killed and six were injured in South Korea, after the high parts of a highway collapsed on Tuesday, the fire authorities said.

The National Fire Agency said that 10 people are working on the site in Anseong, about 65 km (40 miles) south of the capital Seoul.

The accident took place at 9:49 AM (00:49 GMT), when five 50-meter (164 meters) steel structures that support the bridge on the highway collapsed, catching the workers.

The cause of the collapse was not known immediately.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said he sent a team of officials on the spot.

Hyundai Engineering, the site manufacturer, and apologized for the loss of lives and wounds.

“We cooperate actively with the relevant authorities to ensure a quick recovery of the site and a thorough investigation of the exact cause of the accident,” the company said in a statement, according to the Yonhap News Agency.

Interim President Choi Sang-Mok called to mobilize all available staff and provide safety measures to prevent additional damage, his office said.

Choi became the interim President of South Korea in December, after President Yoon Suk Yeol was accused of his short -term statement of Martial Law on December 3.

Yoon appeared in court for a preliminary hearing last week about the accusations that he had tried to orchestrate a rebellion in front of a criminal trial.

The police arrested him on Yoon on January 15, after a week of one week in his residential compound, in the first such action against a president in South Korea.

Deadly accidents continue to appear regularly on South Korean industrial sites, which introduced a law in 2022 to address safety laps and punish the management of the company if a worker is killed at work.

At the beginning of February, six people died in a fire at a construction site of the hotel in the city of Port Busan, with approximately 100 people evacuated, including 14 workers for safety by a helicopter, after they took refuge on a roof.

In June last year, a fire at a lithium battery factory that the authorities blamed on the failure control failures and the inadequate safety training killed 23 workers.