BUCHEON (South Korea), Nov 13 (Bernama-Yonhap) -- A truck crashed into a market in Bucheon on Thursday, killing two people and injuring 18 others, officials said, Yonhap News Agency reported.
The pickup plowed through Jeil Market in the city just southwest of Seoul at around 11 am, according to police, adding that the driver was detained at the scene.
“The driver claims it was sudden unintended acceleration, but it is hard to verify based on CCTV footage of the moving vehicle,” an official from Bucheon Fire Station Park Geum-cheon told reporters.
Park said the driver, in his 60s, was not under the influence and crashed into people on the market's pathways, not into the stores.
The truck first moved 28 meters in reverse before lurching 150 m forward, he added.
The two killed were both women in their 70s.
The injured included three with impaired consciousness and six classified as emergency patients.
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