South Korea’s military has announced it has canceled some training exercises across the country in response to an incident in which a child was hit in the neck by a bullet. The incident is currently being investigated, TASR informs, according to Wednesday’s AFP report.
- The South Korean army has canceled part of the exercises throughout the country.
- The child suffered a neck injury apparently from a stray bullet on the playground.
- The injured girl was taken to the hospital and then released home.
- The army has suspended all firing exercises with individual weapons temporarily.
- The tip of the bullet was found in the child’s wound during hospital treatment.
The incident occurred on Monday at a children’s playground in the city of Tägu, where a child was injured after being hit by an apparently stray bullet from a nearby shooting range. said local officials. The rescuers took the girl to the hospital, but later released him as her life was not in danger.
“The Army has suspended all firing exercises with individual weapons due to the incident,” said Bä Sok-jin, head of the army’s public relations department, at a press conference on Tuesday. According to him, shooting exercises were taking place at the time of the accident, and the army is already investigating the cause of the incident.
“The tip of the bullet was found in the child’s wound during treatment at the hospital,” South Korea’s Jonhap news agency quoted a military official as saying. In 2020, a golf club carrier collapsed on a course in South Cholla province after being hit by a stray bullet from a nearby military range and had to undergo immediate surgery. The woman eventually survived, AFP reminds.
