A Fire of Unknown Cause Broke Out at a Shooting Range

"It was their first trip abroad…”
Many people mourn 9 Japanese’s death in the shooting range because of an unknown fire. Among them, 6 died and the rest of them seriously injured.

By looking back upon their school days, these Japanese people were baseball players in their school and used to get together. All men were born in 1972. They came to Busan on November 14 by taking SEIL tourism company schedule which was an overnight trip. This was their first time to go abroad.









25 bereaved family members and 7 Unjen public officials arrived in Busan from Hakata Port. They took informal proceedings of departure procedure and took bus directly to go to Yangsan Busan University Hospital where the bodies were being held.

The director of a Yangsan Busan University Hospital, Sung-hwan Beck, received them and helped these people to identify their family members who were died in Busan.

The police decided to identify the bodies by gene identification if bereaved family members can not recognize the bodies. Also the police cut the press to bereaved family members.