A military probe revealed Monday that the two KF-16 fighter pilots responsible for accidentally bombing Pocheon, Gyeonggi, entered the wrong target coordinates despite a three-step verification process.
The commander of the South Korean Air Force, General Lee Young-su, has publicly apologized for the recent accidental bombing of a village near Seoul by KF-16 fighter jets. The incident resulted in nearly thirty casualties,
Multiple people have been injured, two seriously, after South Korea fighter jets accidentally dropped eight bombs over a village in Pocheon, according to local media reports.
The number of people injured after South Korean fighter jets accidentally dropped bombs on a civilian area on Thursday increased to 15 civilians and 14 soldiers, the country's defence ministry said.