Ten North Korean workers were killed in a rare crash at a South Korean industrial complex in the North, Seoul's Yonhap news agency reported today.
The crash occurred when two commuter buses collided late on July 2nd at the Kaesong industrial complex, which is run by South Korea just north of the border for mostly small and medium-sized manufacturing firms, Yonhap reported.
Forty North Korean workers were also injured in the incident which was apparently blamed on heavy rain. There were no casualties among the South Koreans stationed there, the report said.
An official at Seoul's Unification Ministry confirmed the crash but said the government had no further details.
Construction on the project began in 2003 as a model of future economic cooperation between the two states, which are technically at war because they have signed no formal peace treaty to end their 1950-53 conflict.
There are more than 120 South Korean companies employing about 40,000 North Korean workers at Kaesong to make products such as cooking pots, clothes, shoes and watches.
Reuters