Location and identification of two missing persons... Rescue 'difficulty'

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The location of one additional missing person was confirmed at the site of the Gwangju apartment collapse. The location of another missing person was discovered during the process of searching the place where the missing person was found two days ago. Let's connect a KBC reporter who is on-site.

Reporter Minji Shin, please tell us in detail about the search situation today (the 27th).

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Yes, it is at the site of the collapse of the Hyundai Industrial Development Apartment in Gwangju.

For the past three days, the location of two buried persons has been confirmed one after another.

A little while ago, news came that the identities of these two buried had been identified, and DNA confirmation showed that they matched the information of the workers who went missing immediately after the accident.

At 11:50 a.m. today, the search authorities discovered an additional body part of one buried person while carrying out a search operation while removing debris from the 28th floor of the collapsed building.

The bloodstains of the buried person found on the 27th floor two days ago and the fingerprints taken from the hands of the buried person found today were analyzed by comparing them with genetic information obtained from the families of the missing persons.

As a result of genetic analysis, different missing persons were identified, and their identities were confirmed.

Two of the five missing persons who have not been rescued so far have been located.

Although they have succeeded in locating the missing persons, rescue operations are struggling.

Large concrete debris and rebar are piled up inside the 27th and 28th floors, where they were discovered, so the rescue is expected to take a considerable amount of time.

Currently, various rescue measures are being attempted, such as using urban search equipment such as a hydraulic concrete cutter to penetrate the side of the debris between the 26th and 28th floors around the discovery point.

Tonight we're going to start installing an opening that will allow us to explore the 29th floor as well.

(Video coverage: Pilho Yeom KBC)