A village in South Korea near the North Korean border was incorrectly bombed on Thursday by two fighter aircraft from the South Air Force, leaving 15 people injured and destructive houses and church.
The Jets participated in a joint exercise with the United States army when each of them threw four bombs, according to the South army. The bombs were intended to hit a series of several miles from the village, but at least one of the South Korean pilots had introduced inaccurate coordinates, the army said.
Four of the injured were seriously injured and required surgery, officials in Pocheon, a city that includes the village of Nogok, where the bombs fell, told Pocheon. Of the other 11, seven was shocked and small scratches from the fall. Local news stores reported that none of the victims were in critical condition.
The army said it suspends all live fire exercises while an investigation was carried out. The exercise on Thursday was linked to annual joint exercises, known as Freedom Shield, that the South Korean and US military performs each year and are going to officially begin on Monday.
A woman in Nogok running a store at her home said she was there when an “earthquake-as” explosion struck the village, breaking the windows in her home and in the neighbors’ houses. Her home was 700 feet from the point where the most serious damage was reported.
Photographs transferred by local news agencies showed a house in the village with parts of its walls and with a roof tile. They also showed damage to a Catholic church and torn branches of pine trees pushed around.
The South Korean Air Force did not say how many of the eight bombs fell had hit Nogok, which is about 20 miles from North Korean border. He apologized and promised compensation for the victims.
“Something that should never happen just happened,” said Mayor Baek Young-Hyun of Pocheon. “The place where the bombs landed is completely chaotic and looks like a battlefield.”
Mr Baek said that three large military shotguns occupy 12,253 acres of land in Pocheon and bullets left there sometimes threatened spatials. He asked the military stance to use the trigger rows until it can ensure that accidents like Thursday will never happen again.
On Thursday, South Korean and United States soldiers said this year’s Freedom Shield exercises would start Monday and the last 11 days. But in recent days, smaller joint exercises have begun than the main exercises.
US troops-but the United States Air Force aircraft-were in common with live fire when the accident happened on Thursday, the US military told Korea.
“We are taking this incident very seriously,” said Ryan Donald, a spokesman for the military US military, adding that his order is closely coordinating with the South Korean Ministry of Defense and committed to a thorough and transparent investigation.
The United States has 28,500 troops parked in South Korea. The allies conduct several common military exercises each year, calling the defenders. The Carl Vinson American Aircraft Carrier group was grouped in a South Korean port this week to participate in the Freedom Shield exercise.
North Korea is filled with drills, calling for rehearsals for war.
On Monday, Kim Yo-Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, who also acts as his spokesman, accused President Trump’s administration of the “most hostile and confrontation” against her country, citing the continuation of the joints.
“We will never limit ourselves to sit even to comment on the situation,” Ms Kim said. He said that North Korea could repeat the nuclear power weapons test.
