Dramatic television footage showed the bus being buried in debris and smothered by an enormous cloud of dust because the structure gave way. The bus, which had stopped ahead of the location , was carrying 17 people when the accident occurred Wednesday within the city of Gwangju, southwest of Seoul.
At least nine people were killed when a five-storey building being demolished in South Korea suddenly collapsed, crushing a bus, officials said.
Dramatic television footage showed the bus being buried in debris and smothered by an enormous cloud of dust because the structure gave way.
The bus, which had stopped ahead of the location , was carrying 17 people when the accident occurred Wednesday within the city of Gwangju, southwest of Seoul.
Nine of the passengers were killed and therefore the remaining eight were all seriously injured, consistent with the National Fire Agency.
All the workers on the demolition site had been evacuated before the collapse, they added.
The explanation for the accident wasn't immediately clear. Police have launched a search into the case, authorities said.
The largest peacetime disaster in South Korea involved the collapse of a emporium in 1995, when quite 500 people were killed.
