Piles of steel reinforcement bars lie tangled around a concrete pour truck and crane at the construction site of the Shinansan Line railway in Yeouido, western Seoul, on Dec. 18.
A special investigation team from the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency and the Seongnam Branch of the Ministry of Employment and Labor began a joint raid at around 9 a.m. on Thursday in regard to a recent tunnel collapse.
A subway construction site for the new Shinansan Line in Gwangmyeong collapsed on April 11, resulting in two workers being trapped under debris. Rescue efforts by the Gyeonggi Fire and Disaster Headquarters came to an end on April 16.
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