Gyeonggi-do Province Kills 5 Over 2 Days Due to Heavy Snow

Five people died in two days in Gyeonggi Province, where heavy snow was concentrated.

At around 5 a.m. today (28th), a man in his 60s was crushed to death by a falling tree while clearing snow in front of his house in a detached house in Baekam-myeon, Cheoin-gu, Yongin-si.

Around noon, a snow-covered canopy collapsed at an auto parts manufacturing plant in Seoun-myeon, Anseong, killing an employee in his 70s who was passing by.

Earlier yesterday (27th), a collapse occurred at 8:40 a.m. during the snow removal of a tent-type garage in a farmhouse in Okcheon-myeon, Yangpyeong-gun, and at 7:30 p.m., the upper steel net collapsed during the snow removal work at the golf practice range in Doyle-dong, Pyeongtaek-si, killing one person each.

In addition, a wide-area bus slipped on the snow near the Samnae Interchange on the Bibong Maesong Urban Expressway in Maesong-myeon, Hwaseong-si, killing an employee of a road operator who was controlling traffic at the accident site.