200 Dead, Missing in Daegu Subway Arson: JoongAng Daily

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200 Dead, Missing in Daegu Subway Arson: JoongAng Daily

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200 Dead, Missing in Daegu Subway Arson: JoongAng Daily

At least 200 were killed or missing and about 138 were injured Tuesday when a man identified as a mental patient allegedly set fire to a Daegu subway car, according to S.Korean newspaper JoongAng Daily report Wednesday.

The Daegu Police were still trying to get an accurate count of the dead last night. They recovered 52 bodies but said dozens more were still in the subway cars. About 155 people are unaccounted for. Because the accident site was a charred mass of wreckage, the police were having difficulty extracting corpses. The 138 persons listed as injured were sent to eight nearby hospitals. Some are believed to be in critical condition, and may add to the death toll.

Most of the dead were locked inside the trains and suffocated by poisonous gases, the police said. The fire also appeared to have caused great damage to stores at the station, but an estimate of the loss has not been completed.

Source: Agencies

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