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bus that was running on the bridge over the Han River suddenly caught fire and the passengers on it were evacuated.
The fire is believed to have occurred as the engine overheated, but fortunately no one was injured.
This is reporter Jo Yoon-ha.
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Black smoke billows into the sky with bright red flames from the back of the bus.
[A fire on the bus?
Oh, are you all getting off?]
The bus that was heading from the north end of Jamsil Bridge in Seoul to the south end caught fire today (6th) around 12:20 pm.
When the fire broke out, the bus stopped at a stop above the bridge, and 15 people, including the bus driver and passengers, got out of the car and fortunately no one was injured.
The fire was put out in about 10 minutes by firefighters who arrived.
[Han Sang-min / Witness: Even though I was in the (other) bus, I could smell smoke a lot.
Is the bus going to explode (I wondered)] The
fire department believes that the fire started at the back of the bus due to overheating of the engine, and is checking the exact cause of the fire and the degree of aging of the vehicle.
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The front bumpers of cars in the apartment parking lot are lined up and broken.
At around 9:10 this morning, in an apartment in Seo-gu, Daejeon, a Sonata vehicle driven by an elderly driver A collided with eight vehicles parked in the ground parking lot in a row.
[Memorial ceremony / Witness: I was washing dishes in the kitchen, and suddenly I heard a roar. A sound like tapping a pipe makes a 'Kung Kung Kung Kung' sound... .]
There was no one in the parked car and no one was injured.
It is reported that A suddenly collided with a nearby vehicle while exiting the underground parking lot.
(Video coverage: Yang Doo-won, video editing: Kim Jong-tae, video provided by Seoul Gwangjin Fire Station, viewers Eun-kyung Jang, Hye-young Park, Hee-jeong Kim, Sang-min Han, Young-hoon Song)