110 killed in N Korean blast
19/06/2007 13:27  - (SA)  

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Seoul - A South Korean aid group said on Tuesday that about 110 people were killed in a gasoline pipeline blast 10 days ago in the northwest of North Korea.

The group, Good Friends, said all the dead perished in flames when the pipeline blew up in North Pyongan province on June 9.

"Informed sources told us that about 110 people were killed in the blast," Noh Oh-Jae, a group official, told AFP. She refused to further identify the sources.

Noh said the disaster occurred when villagers gathered around a previously cracked pipeline to collect gasoline.

"Someone ignited a flame by mistake, causing a huge explosion that sent flames and smoke billowing up, engulfing people," she said.

Officials at the South's spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, and the unification ministry said they could not confirm the report.

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