Five Thais injured in South Korean vehicle pile-up

The multiple collision in heavy fog on the Seoul-bound lane injured more than 60 people with some 10 in serious condition.
Of the injured, seven were Chinese, two Vietnamese and two Japanese. The other three foreigners were Russian, Bangladeshi and Swiss.
One of the two Vietnamese victims was in a serious condition, firemen said.
The five injured Thais were tourists riding a van, according to the Thai Embassy in Seoul. All of them were admitted to a hospital nearby.
The embassy has already reached them and was checking if they had travel insurance to cover their medical expenses.

Thai boy, 5, among injured
One of the five is now in intensive care, one in an emergency room and two, including a five-year-old boy, are in an in-patient ward while the fifth was released after receiving treatment, said Valaikorn Sivarak from the Thai Embassy.
One of those killed was the driver of the van that carried the Thais, he said.
The bodies of the two dead victims have been moved to hospitals in Goyang, a northern Seoul suburb, and western Incheon, police said.
They were identified only as a 51-year-old surnamed Kim and a 46-year-old surnamed Lim.
The massive pile-up appeared to have been started when a limousine ran into the back of a car, an Incheon police station spokesman said.
The foggy conditions meant drivers could only see 15 metres ahead of them, he said.
TV footage showed emergency rescue workers trying to access the mass of twisted and crumpled wrecks on the fog-covered bridge.
“I heard a series of bangs in front of me. Then I was rear-ended by a following car. I felt my car turning around and hitting a protection rail. I then lost consciousness,” a cab driver, Yoo Sang-young, told the Yonhap news agency.
Another driver said the thick fog had prevented him from seeing the danger ahead.
“I slowed down but still rammed into the cars piled up in front of me,” he said.