South Korea bombs own civilians in ‘abnormal’ military drill accident

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South Korea accidentally bombed a civilian area during a live-fire military exercise.

During the exercise in the Nogok-ri area of Pocheon, two South Korean FK-16 fighter jets dropped eight MK-82 500-pound bombs on a residential area, hitting a church, cargo truck, and two residential buildings, ABC News reported. Fifteen civilians were wounded in the bombing, three of them seriously.

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