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night (30th), residents of an apartment complex in Songpa-gu, Seoul suffered great inconvenience when electricity was suddenly cut off.
16 residents were rescued after being trapped in an elevator, and heating was stopped due to a sudden cold wave.
Reporter Kim Kwan-jin reports on incidents and accidents during the night.
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It was around 8 p.m. last night when a large-scale power outage occurred in the Olympic Village apartment complex in Bangi-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul.
Electricity supply was cut off for all 5,500 households, and it was restored around 11:40 p.m., about two and a half hours later.
Residents suffered great inconvenience as the cold wave and power outage overlapped overnight.
[Choi Geum-ran/Songpa-gu, Seoul: Because the electricity went out, there was no heating, no running water, no hot water, no water in the toilet or toilet.]
16 apartment residents were rescued after being trapped in an elevator due to a power outage, and residents who were using oxygen respirators in their homes. Two people were given first aid by paramedics who arrived.
[Park Gyeong-seo/Seoul Songpa Fire Station Fire Administration Manager: Looking at the cause of the power outage, the main switch in the electrical room in the basement of Building 237 was damaged, so the entire power outage was identified.]
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A car was completely burned down. It is.
Yesterday evening at around 6:45 pm, there was an accident in which four vehicles collided at 191 km in the direction of Seoul on the Seohaean Expressway in Boryeong, Chungcheongnam-do.
A man in his 60s, a truck driver, was killed in the accident, and the car driver was injured and taken to the hospital.