SEOUL, Mar 6 (NNN-YONHAP) – Seven people were injured, after shells landed on a civilian area of South Korea today, according to the local broadcaster YTN.
Two shells fell on two civilian houses in the inter-Korean border town of Pocheon, around 40 km north of the capital, Seoul, at about 10:00 a.m. local time (0100 GMT), today.
Four people were seriously wounded and three others suffered minor injuries.
South Korea and the United States held a combined live-fire exercise in Pocheon, mobilising more than 160 pieces of military hardware, such as tanks, self-propelled howitzers, helicopters and stealth jets.– NNN-YONHAP
