The terrible moment when a building in demolition collapses and crushes a bus: nine dead and eight injured | the Chronicle

This Wednesday a five-story building fell on traffic from Dong district, killing nine people who were traveling in a bus. The shocking video that captured the action shows how the vehicle is buried under the rubble, claiming the lives of most of the passengers.

The victims were reported by firefighters in the South Korean city, whose property attended the crash site and searched the rubble for passengers and other passers-by affected by the debris.

The presence of 17 people in the vehicle at the time of the accident. Nine of them died instantly. The other eight, including the bus driver, were transferred to the nearest hospital after being seriously injured. Firefighters continue their search of the area as they suspect the presence of workers inside the building at the time of the collapse.

The collapse occurred as part of an urbanization project in the city of Gwangju. At a press conference, the president Chung Mong Gyu Grupo HDC, the main builder of the project, apologized: “I sincerely apologize and feel a great responsibility“, he declared this Thursday.

For his part, the President of South Korea Jae-in Moon ordered the police and the Ministry of Lands to launch a investigation to determine the cause of the loss. The president was immediately informed of the event and offered his condolences to the families of the victims in a statement.

Moon expressed concern about the ineffective security measures linked to the incident, recalling the collapse of the Seocho district in Seoul which in 2019, three people were killed: “To prevent a similar incident from happening again, government must change security measures“said the chef.