All six bodies recovered from flooded construction site

Rescue workers have retrieved the bodies of all six workers who went missing at a flooded underground waterworks construction site in Seoul, firefighting authorities said Thursday.

The authorities said they found bodies of one of the six missing workers early Wednesday and the remaining five late Wednesday night. Half of the six were South Koreans with the remainder Chinese.

On Monday night, water from the swollen Han River swamped the construction site, killing one worker and leaving six others unaccounted for. The ill-fated workers were removing old water pipes inside a tunnel 25 meters below ground at the time of the flooding. (Yonhap News)