1 dead, 6 wounded in S. Korea’s multi-vehicle pileup

SEOUL: One person was dead and six others were wounded on Wednesday from a multi-vehicle pileup on an expressway in western South Korea, according to Yonhap news agency.

The pileup involving four sedans and one truck occurred at about 6:40 a.m. local time (2140 GMT) Tuesday near an entrance to a tunnel of the Seoul-Yangyang Expressway.

A sedan slipped on snow and was rear-ended by a 25-ton truck, into which three other passenger cars crashed.

An 81-year-old passenger aboard one of the ill-fated sedans was taken to a hospital and died.

Two drivers were seriously injured, and four others suffered minor injuries.

The police were investigating the exact cause of the accident.

-Xinhua