SEOUL: Two subway trains collided in Seoul on Friday, injuring more than 100 people but with no immediate report of any fatalities, the emergency services said.
“There are 117 injured, but none of them appear to be serious,” a spokesman for the Seoul emergency services told AFP.
News of the accident broke as the country was still reeling from a ferry disaster on April 16 that left around 300 dead or missing – most of them schoolchildren – after the boat capsized and sank.
The ferry tragedy triggered widespread public anger and a bout of national soul-searching as to whether the country – now Asia’s fourth-largest econom…
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