3 female firefighters killed in truck crash

ASAN, South Chungcheong Province -- A cargo truck slammed into a fire truck parked on the side of a road in central South Korea on Friday, knocking the fire vehicle into three female firefighters and killing them.

The rescue workers, two of them newly recruited trainees, were preparing to capture a dog tied to a guard rail in the central city of Asan when the 25-ton cargo truck smashed into their fire engine at 9:46 a.m. The impact caused the parked vehicle to run over and kill the three firefighters.