SEOUL, Nov 20 (NNN-YONHAP) – Three researchers suffocated to death, at a plant of South Korea’s Hyundai Motor, yesterday.
The researchers were found by another employee, lying in the vehicle performance test chamber of the plant, in the country’s south-eastern port city of Ulsan, at about 3:00 p.m. local time (0600 GMT). They were taken to hospital but all died.
They were believed to have suffocated while working in the chamber, about the size of one vehicle, to test a driving performance.
Exhaust emissions were estimated not to be discharged to the outside, during the testing in the chamber.
Police are investigating the exact cause of the accident.– NNN-YONHAP
