Another Disaster but Minor: Train Derailed
After a stampede in Itaewon, a nuclear threat by North Korea, collapsed a zinc mine in Bonghwa, now the train derailed.
A train derailed in central Seoul on Sunday, injuring some 30 passengers, the operator said.
The derailment occurred at 8.52 pm, when the Mugunghwa train with 275 passengers on board was entering Yeongdeungpo Station in central Seoul, according to the Korea Railroad Corp (KORAIL). Six railroad cars including five passenger cars ran off the tracks, it added.
The train was on its way to Iksan, in North Jeolla Province, some 180 kilometers south of the South Korean capital, from Yongsan, Seoul, at 8.15 pm. Some 30 passengers were injured due to the derailment but most of them are slightly wounded, KORAIL said. Due to the accident, train operations on the line have been delayed by more than one hour.
KORAIL said they are looking into the exact cause of the derailment.
Last time was April 22nd, 2016. Mugunghwa train derailed at about 3.41 am. Friday near a station in the southern port city of Yeosu in South Jeolla province.
(Yonhap News Agency)
Aboard the derailed train were 22 passengers, two locomotive engineers and three crew members. Among the 27 people, one engineer was dead and eight others were wounded. The incident was estimated to have happened as the engineers failed to slow down speed at a curved railroad. The train traveled at a speed of 127 km per hour when it derailed, violating the regulation of running at a speed below 50 km per hour.