Warning shots fired after drones crossed military demarcation line from north, South Korea military says
Military police cover the wreckage of a South Korean KA-1 light attack aircraft with a blue plastic sheet after it crashed in Hoengseong, Gangwon Province.Military police cover the wreckage of a South Korean KA-1 light attack aircraft with a blue plastic sheet after it crashed in Hoengseong, Gangwon Province.South Korea scrambled warplanes and attack helicopters and fired warning shots on Monday after North Korean drones violated its airspace, the South Korean military said.
South Korea tracked the drones crossing from North Korea over what is known as the military demarcation line between the two countries after detecting them in the skies of the western city of Gimpo at about 10.25am , the military said. While scrambling to counter the drones, a South Korean KA-1 light attack aircraft crashed shortly after departing its Wonju base in the country’s east, a defence ministry official said. Its two pilots were able to escape before the crash and are in hospital.
South Korea’s transport ministry said earlier that flights departing from its Incheon and Gimpo airports were suspended following a request from the military. The suspension began at 1.08pm at Gimpo and at 1.22pm at Incheon and lasted for about an hour before flight departures resumed at about 2.10pm, a ministry official told Reuters.
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