Worker rescued from collapsed subway construction site in South Korea after 13 hours

South Korean rescue workers connected Saturday pulled a man from a collapsed subway building tract adjacent nan superior of Seoul.

Officials continued searching for different personification believed to beryllium trapped inside.

Rescue workers pulled a man from a collapsed subway building tract connected Saturday. AP

The subsister was taken to a adjacent hospital. AP

Im Gwang-sik, an charismatic pinch Gwangmyeong city’s occurrence department, said nan subsister was trapped astir 98 feet underground successful nan rubble for astir 13 hours.

The subsister was conscious erstwhile he was recovered and taken to a adjacent hospital.

Gwangmyeong metropolis authorities had earlier withdrawn workers from nan building tract and halted postulation successful nan area aft receiving reports that a ventilation shaft was astatine consequence of collapsing.

Authorities were deploying dozens of rescue workers and vehicles and 3 cranes to hunt for nan different worker who remains unaccounted for.