<Anchor> The
injured are currently being treated at a nearby hospital.
Then, let's connect a reporter who is out of the hospital to find out the situation there.
Reporter Park Ye-rin, how many people have been transferred to the hospital there?
<Reporter> I
am in front of the emergency room at Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital in Pyeongchon, Gyeonggi-do.
From this afternoon, ambulances carrying the dead and seriously injured arrived at the hospital emergency room one after another.
At around 6:40 p.m. today, a transport truck carrying five dead people entered the hospital emergency room.
Patients classified as serious, including facial burns, are now being treated in the emergency room here.
Thirty-four people with minor smoke inhalation were given first aid at the scene and some were taken to hospital.
<Anchor>
How are the injured people now?
<Reporter>
Currently, some of the injured in this accident have been transferred to this hospital.
Guardians who heard the news of the accident also arrived at the hospital to check the condition of the patients.
[Guardian of the injured person: There is no major problem with the appearance of the body, but it is said that it should take about 3 hours to see the progress because of the smoke now.]
This guardian told the reporters the moment he heard from his friend, the transfer patient.
When there was an explosion along with strong flames, people said they abandoned the car and hurriedly escaped to the other side of the tunnel.
He said he also saw a person barely getting out of the house holding an elementary school student next to him.
The injured did not appear to be seriously injured, but are receiving oxygen treatment as they inhaled a lot of smoke during the escape process.
(Video coverage: Cho Chang-hyun, Video editing: Shin Se-eun)
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