YANGJU, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — 104 hours and 30 minutes.
That’s how long it took to locate all three workers buried under 300,000 square meters of land at a quarry in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province on Jan. 29.
Tragically, the three workers were found dead.
The quarry collapsed on the first day of the Lunar New Year’s holiday. Rescuers looked for the missing workers day and night as temperatures fell below -10 degrees Celsius, searching in vain until Wednesday, the last day of the holidays.
A total of 649 firefighters and 368 workers from other agencies participated in the search, mobilizing 366 excavators and other equipment.
The last of the workers was found by rescue dogs from both police and the fire department, making significant contributions to the search mission.
Image Credit: Gyeonggi Northern Fire and Disaster Headquarters / National Fire Agency / photonews@koreabizwire.com
