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1995 Daegu Gas Explosions
The 1995 Daegu gas explosions occurred at Daegu Metro Line 1, a construction site located in Sangin-dong, Daegu, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ..., on April 28, 1995. At least 101 people, including 42 Yeongnam Middle School students, were killed with as many as 202 people injured. Overview The event occurred on April 28, 1995 at 7:52 a.m. in the underground construction site of the 2nd Section of the Sagley Subway Line 2 at Yeongnam High School in Sangin-dong, Dalseo-gu, Daegu Metropolitan City. Construction work at the Daegu branch (대구점) of the Lotte Department Store in Buk-gu, Daegu, where 31 holes of 75 millimeter width that were going through a grout curtain were accidentally drilled through a city gas pipeline and resulted in gas leaka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daegu
Daegu (, , literally 'large hill', 대구광역시), formerly spelled Taegu and officially known as the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; it is the third-largest official metropolitan area in the nation with over 2.5 million residents; and the second-largest city after Busan in the Yeongnam region in southeastern Korean Peninsula. It was overtaken by Incheon in the 2000s, but still it is said to be the third city, according to the "Act on the Establishment of Daegu City and Incheon City" (Act No. 3424 and April 13, 1981). Daegu and surrounding North Gyeongsang Province are often referred to as Daegu-Gyeongbuk, with a total population over 5 million. Daegu is located in south-eastern Korea about from the seacoast, near the Geumho River and its mainstream, Nakdong River in Gyeongsang-do. The Daegu basin is the central plain of the Yeongnam region. In ancient time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
