FOUR South Korean workers died after apparently inhaling toxic gas while trying to fix a giant refrigerator at a discount supermarket near Seoul, police said on Saturday.
The four were found lying unconscious in the basement of the E-Mart in Ilsan, 30km north-west of Seoul, early on Saturday and rushed to a nearby hospital, where they were all pronounced dead.
Mr Kim Kil Soo, an emergency official handling the case, told journalists that the four mechanics had apparently been asphyxiated by gas leaking from the refrigerator.
E-Mart is one of South Korea's largest retail chains.
Forensic experts plan to conduct an autopsy on the bodies to determine the exact cause of death, police official Yoon Hee Seog said
Source: straitstimes
The four were found lying unconscious in the basement of the E-Mart in Ilsan, 30km north-west of Seoul, early on Saturday and rushed to a nearby hospital, where they were all pronounced dead.
Mr Kim Kil Soo, an emergency official handling the case, told journalists that the four mechanics had apparently been asphyxiated by gas leaking from the refrigerator.
E-Mart is one of South Korea's largest retail chains.
Forensic experts plan to conduct an autopsy on the bodies to determine the exact cause of death, police official Yoon Hee Seog said
Source: straitstimes
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