BANGKOK, Feb 11 – The Thai Embassy in Seoul, South Korea is speeding up assistance to five Thai nationals who were injured in a massive collision of about 100 vehicles on a bridge near Incheon International Airport yesterday.
Embassy officials said that five Thais were among the victims of a pileup involving some 100 vehicles in Incheon.
The Thai victims were tourists, all in the same vehicle, the officials said, noting that all were sent to hospital for treatment.
Thai ambassador to South Korea Kulkumut Singhara Na Ayudhaya was closely following the accident and had ordered officials to contact the victims.
According to Yonhap News Agency, the collision took place at 9:34am amid foggy conditions. The incident left two people dead and more than 60 others injured.
Incheon police were quoted as saying that a taxi in the first lane bumped another taxi in front of it into the second lane. An airport limousine bus ran into the second taxi, causing a mass collision of cars behind it.
