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Yesterday (13th), a power outage occurred in Gangnam-gu, Seoul during work hours, and electricity supply was cut off to 900 households.
More than 10 people were rescued when the elevator stopped.
The incident/accident news is reporter Jo Yoon-ha.
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traffic lights are off, and people are crossing the crosswalk between cars lined up.
At around 5:30 p.m. yesterday, a telephone pole in Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul sparked and caught fire.
The fire cut off electricity supply to 965 households in the Yeoksam-dong area.
[Jang Seo/Gangnam-gu, Seoul: All the lights on the street that were supposed to be on are not on and all are off.
Everyone is in the restaurant, turn on the flashlight...
.]
Traffic lights stopped due to a power outage, causing a traffic jam on the way home from work, and 12 people were rescued from being trapped in an elevator.
KEPCO and Gangnam-gu Office carried out restoration work, and electricity supply was resumed about two hours after the blackout.
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Red flames soar over the car, which is left with only the skeleton.
A fire broke out in a car that was running along the Gangbyeon Expressway near the Hangang Bridge in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, around 6:00 p.m. yesterday evening.
[Jung Ho-rim/Eyewitness: I passed by, but the pillar of fire was very hot and it was dangerous with a 'popping' sound.
It was very hot.]
The driver hurriedly evacuated and luckily there were no casualties, but the fire burned all the vehicles.
Fire authorities are investigating the exact cause of the fire, assuming that the fire started from the engine side of the vehicle.
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At around 10:20 last night, a fire broke out on the second floor of a food manufacturing plant in Bureun-myeon, Ganghwa-gun, Incheon, and it went out in 2 hours and 10 minutes.
There were no casualties, but the fire burned down one building.
(Video coverage: Cho Chang-hyun, video editing: Jung Ho-rim)