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fire with an explosion sound from an electric kickboard set near the subway station caused a commotion in which citizens were evacuated.
This is reporter Ahn Hee-jae, news of the nightly incident.
<Reporter>
There are so many marks around the shared electric kickboard on the square.
Yesterday (2nd) around 7pm, a report was received saying "the electric kickboard burned out" near the Pyeongchon Station of Subway Line 4 in Anyang City, Gyeonggi Province.
[Witness: There wasn't a person on board.
Suddenly there was a popping sound...
You know the smell of the battery popping.
The nasty smell...
.] The
fire went out before the 119 fire brigade arrived, and no one was found to be injured.
Fire authorities are investigating the cause of the fire based on eyewitness statements that "a flame was seen near the kickboard battery."
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car in flames is standing in the middle of the road.
At about 7 o'clock yesterday evening, a BMW car waiting for a signal on a road in Banwol-dong, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, went out in about 10 minutes.
Immediately after the fire, the driver was evacuated, and there was no human injury.
Fire authorities believe that a fire has started near the engine room of the vehicle.
--- About 8:10
yesterday evening, in Masanhappo-gu, Changwon-si, Gyeongnam, a car standing on the shoulder caught fire.
The light went out in about 20 minutes, but 55-year-old A was found dead in a car.
The police are planning to request an autopsy from the National Institute of Scientific Investigation and investigate the accidents based on surrounding CCTVs.