Posted on 06/09/2021 8:42:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A five-story building being demolished in southern South Korea collapsed on Wednesday, sending debris falling on a bus and killing nine people on board, officials said.
Concrete from the collapsed building in the southern city of Gwangju fell on the bus carrying 17 people which had stopped on a nearby street, the National Fire Agency said.
Emergency officers dispatched to the site rescued eight people from the bus, all seriously injured, before discovering the nine bodies, the agency said in a statement.
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but it worked so well on paper!
I take it that it collapsed sooner than expected.
Still beats the ChiComs. Their buildings often collapse as they are being built.
Something like that happened in South Korea before...
"The Sampoong Department Store collapse was a structural failure that occurred on June 29, 1995, in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea. The collapse is the largest peacetime disaster in South Korean history, killing 502 people and injuring 937. It was the deadliest modern building collapse until the September 11 attacks in New York City, and the deadliest non-deliberate building collapse until the 2013 Dhaka Garment Factory Collapse near Dhaka, Bangladesh."
All over Tokyo there is constant reconstruction. The engineers and demolitions crews are extremely talented in the way they can tear down a 15 story building and not damage the building on all three sides of it. I’m always amazed at how they manage to do it. It’s usually done by ripping off the front, then putting in a cherry picker that climbs a big dirt pile and slowly pull down the other three walls into the middle of the lot. I’ve never seen or heard of a disaster like this one in Japan, but I’m sure accidents have happened. Very unfortunate for the dead and injured and the demolition company in this story.
Few such disasters like that here in Japan. Correct.
Superior to South Korea in so many respects.
That’s not to say they did not have a lot of horrid mass casualty accidents like that in the high growth years in 1960s.
RIP to the victims.
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