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Yesterday (11th) afternoon in Gwangju, the exterior wall of the 39th floor apartment collapsed during construction. Six people at the construction site have not yet been contacted.
Reporter Jeon Hyung-woo, is the search still ongoing, how is it?
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Yes, I am at the site of the apartment collapse in Hwajeong-dong, Gwangju.
The search operation for the six workers who lost contact has been suspended since 8pm yesterday evening.
This is because the tower crane erected next to the apartment is in danger of collapse.
The exterior wall collapse accident happened yesterday around 3:50 PM during the construction of a new apartment building.
While pouring concrete on the roof of a 39-story building, the outer walls from the 23rd to the 34th floor suddenly collapsed.
Six field workers were evacuated or rescued by themselves, but six other workers have not been contacted so far.
They are known to have worked on windows between the 28th and 31st floors.
The height of the tower crane, which is at risk of an accident, is 140m, so more than 100 households within a radius of 140m have also been evacuated.
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Okay, so when do you expect the search to start again?
<Reporter>
Yes, at dawn this morning, we plan to send in experts first to conduct a safety diagnosis.
It is expected that the search will be resumed only when it is judged that the risk of collapse is low in the safety examination.
The families of the missing people are waiting anxiously in the tent you see behind them.
The police, who formed the investigation headquarters, have secured statements from construction officials and eyewitnesses, and are investigating the circumstances of the accident through CCTV.
In order to determine the cause of the accident while observing the situation of the search operation, an on-site investigation will be conducted jointly with the National Forensic Service and the Fire Department.
So far, we have delivered from the site of the Gwangju apartment collapse accident.