Update | Subway train crash in South Korean capital Seoul injures 200 passengers
Most of the injured suffered minor abrasions, hospital officials say, with the most serious injuries appearing to be concussion and head trauma
South Korea suffered its second serious transport accident in just over two weeks on Friday when a subway train in the capital, Seoul, crashed into a train at a station, injuring 200 people although no one was killed.
The country is still mourning the victims of a ferry accident on April 16, when 300 people were killed or are missing in the submerged hull of a capsized ship in the country’s worst disaster in 20 years.
Most of those hurt in the mid-afternoon accident on Friday appeared to have suffered minor abrasions, according to emergency officials at Sangwangsimni station in the east of the capital, although one person was being treated for a brain haemorrhage and one for a fracture.
Witnesses said one train was leaving Sangwangsimni station in the east of the capital when it was hit from the rear by an incoming train.
One subway car was derailed and passengers walked a short distance along the tracks to the station, YTN television said.