SEOUL, November 12 (AJP) - Two more bodies were recovered overnight from the rubble of a thermal power plant in the southeastern city of Ulsan, bringing the death toll to five after a large structure collapsed last week.
According to rescue workers, one victim was found several hours after two large boiler towers at the state-run utility company Korea East-West Power were blown up the previous day to facilitate search operations for workers trapped beneath the debris.
Another body was retrieved early Wednesday morning.
The aging towers had hampered search operations amid concerns they might also collapse.
Of the nine workers at the site when a 60-meter boiler tower suddenly fell during demolition work last Thursday, two were immediately rescued, five are now dead, and two remain missing.
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