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Grieving family members of those who perished in the Feb. 18, Taegu, Korea, subway conflagration claim local authorities are bungling the investigation and protecting officials who may not have observed proper safety and rescue procedures during the blaze that killed, at latest count, 197. Police revealed on Feb. 25 that subway authorities edited out several incriminating minutes of taped conversation between a train conductor and the control station before making the tape public. Among the previously deleted portions: An order to the conductor to "kill the car"?to remove the carriage's master key and flee. There was no discussion...
...part of a broader attempt to cover up fatally flawed safety procedures, won an injunction to stop official tampering with the site and are demanding that the mayor of Taegu resign. So far police have arrested seven people, including the alleged arsonist, the train conductor and five other subway staff. The Korean government has also set up a special task force to probe the disaster, pledging to "win the trust" of victims' families...
...biological or chemical agents. In New York City and Washington, rumors were viral, spreading by word and wire; a friend calls a friend to say her ex-boyfriend's sister's friend's father is a top New York City cop and told his daughter to "avoid the subway for the next 36 hours." Members of Congress were warned about possible assassination attempts, even as missile batteries were scattered all over the capital, and at one Safeway store there was not a bottle of water left. Parents sent their kids to school with valentines, and laminated emergency contact lists...
...close to hell down there." SOUTH KOREAN FIRE FIGHTER, after emerging from the scene of a firebomb attack on a Daegu subway. Officials say 133 people died and 300 remain missing...