Elevated Part of Highway Being Built in South Korea Collapses, 4 Workers Dead

Rescuers work at the construction site of a bridge on the Seoul-Sejong expressway, after it collapsed earlier in the day in Anseong, South Korea, 25 February 2025. EPA/HONG GI-WON/YONHAP
Rescuers work at the construction site of a bridge on the Seoul-Sejong expressway, after it collapsed earlier in the day in Anseong, South Korea, 25 February 2025. EPA/HONG GI-WON/YONHAP
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Elevated Part of Highway Being Built in South Korea Collapses, 4 Workers Dead

Rescuers work at the construction site of a bridge on the Seoul-Sejong expressway, after it collapsed earlier in the day in Anseong, South Korea, 25 February 2025. EPA/HONG GI-WON/YONHAP
Rescuers work at the construction site of a bridge on the Seoul-Sejong expressway, after it collapsed earlier in the day in Anseong, South Korea, 25 February 2025. EPA/HONG GI-WON/YONHAP

Elevated parts of a highway under construction collapsed south of the Korean capital on Tuesday, killing at least four workers and injuring six others, officials said.
Ten people were working on the site in the city of Cheonan, about 90 kilometers from Seoul. They fell when it collapsed and were trapped in the rubble, the National Fire Agency said.

Ko Kyung-man, an Anseong fire official, said that four people had died, including two Chinese nationals, and six were injured, including five who were in a critical condition. The five also included one Chinese citizen.
"They were working to install a deck on the bridge," Ko told a televised briefing. "All of the 10 were up on the deck ... and fell from both sides when it collapsed."
The cause of the collapse wasn’t immediately known.

Broadcaster YTN aired dramatic footage showing a deck of a towering bridge collapsing at the site.
Acting President Choi Sang-mok urged authorities to mobilize all available personnel and equipment to salvage the workers.

The Transport Ministry said it has dispatched a team of officials to the scene.

Data released in March by South Korea's labor ministry showed that 598 industrial workers died in 2023, with the construction sector accounting for nearly half, or 303, though the total death toll was down from 644 in 2022.



Trump Warns Iran That Its Nuclear Sites Could Be Bombed Again

Damage from a deadly June 13 Israeli airstrike is seen in a building at a residential compound in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP)
Damage from a deadly June 13 Israeli airstrike is seen in a building at a residential compound in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP)
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Trump Warns Iran That Its Nuclear Sites Could Be Bombed Again

Damage from a deadly June 13 Israeli airstrike is seen in a building at a residential compound in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP)
Damage from a deadly June 13 Israeli airstrike is seen in a building at a residential compound in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP)

US President Donald Trump warned on Monday that he would order fresh US attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities should Tehran try to restart facilities that the United States bombed last month.

Trump issued the threat as he held talks with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at his Turnberry golf resort on the western coast of Scotland.

Iran, which denies seeking to develop a nuclear weapon, has insisted it will not give up domestic uranium enrichment despite the bombings of three nuclear sites.

Trump told reporters that Iran has been sending out "nasty signals" and any effort to restart its nuclear program will be immediately quashed.

"We wiped out their nuclear possibilities. They can start again. If they do, we'll wipe it out faster than you can wave your finger at it," Trump said.