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Gwangju Hwajeong I-Park Collapses 28-story Rescue Determination of Death

On the afternoon of the 31st, 119 rescuers are searching for missing persons on the 29th floor of the Hwajeong I-Park collapsed building in Seo-gu, Gwangju. /Photo = Yonhap News

It was confirmed that the deceased was found dead on the 28th floor of the Hwajeong I-Park collapse in Gwangju.

The pan-government central accident management headquarters and the regional accident management integrated countermeasure headquarters announced that at around 6:25 pm on the 31st, a construction worker buried in concrete rubble was rescued from the 28th floor of a collapsed apartment building.

He was identified as one of six people missing at the time of the collapse and was taken to a hospital, where it was determined that he had already died.

The Heavy Suspension Headquarters and the Countermeasures Headquarters discovered the 28th floor burial person at 11:50 am on the 27th, and recovered it in 102 hours.

It has been 17 days since the 21st day of the collapse and the 14th, when the first victim of this accident was recovered from the first basement floor.

Authorities decided not to disclose the identity of the rescued burial to the media at the request of the bereaved family.

  On the afternoon of the 31st, at the site of the collapse of Hwajeong I-Park in Seo-gu, Gwangju, firefighters and debris removal workers continue to rescue the buried people in the upper floors and search for the missing at night.  Rescue authorities recovered the second victim of the accident from the wreckage on the 28th floor on the afternoon of the same day, one person buried.  /Photo = Yonhap News

On the afternoon of the 31st, at the site of the collapse of Hwajeong I-Park in Seo-gu, Gwangju, firefighters and debris removal workers continue to rescue the buried people in the upper floors and search for the missing at night. Rescue authorities recovered the second victim of the accident from the wreckage on the 28th floor on the afternoon of the same day, one person buried. /Photo = Yonhap News

On the 25th, during the search for a missing person inside the 27th floor of the apartment, a construction worker was found buried in rubble.

The task of removing debris to rescue one other buried person found on the 27th floor and the search for the remaining three missing are continuing.

On the other hand, at 3:46 pm on the 11th at 3:46 pm on the 11th at Hwajeong I-Park Residential Complex Apartment Building 201 (4 stories below the ground and 39 above), Hwajeong I-Park, Gwangju, which was being built by HDC Hyundai Industrial Development, the internal structure of 16 floors and parts of the exterior walls were demolished. collapsed all at once.

In the accident, six workers who were in charge of windows, plastering and firefighting equipment construction on the 28th to 31st floors at the time went missing.

Reporter Lee Bo-bae, Hankyung.com newsinfo@hankyung.com

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