{"id":55520,"date":"2026-03-18T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=55520"},"modified":"2026-03-18T03:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:10:08","slug":"suspected-stray-bullet-from-military-drill-hits-girl-at-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=55520","title":{"rendered":"Suspected stray bullet from military drill hits girl at playground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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South Korea’s military has halted all shooting drills involving small firearms – including weapons like rifles or handguns – after a child was struck by a suspected stray bullet at a playground in Daegu city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elementary schoolgirl was taken to hospital after being struck near the neck on Monday afternoon by an object suspected to be a bullet. She has since been discharged, local media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The playground was located about 1.5km (0.9mi) away from a military shooting range, and a shooting drill had taken place at the time of the incident, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials say they are investigating if her injury was due to the live-fire exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The range, built in 1995, is equipped with protective barriers to catch bullets, according to news site the Korea Herald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Live-fire military exercises held across South Korea have mostly taken place without incident – though there have been rare cases of civilian casualties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, a golf caddy in South Jeolla province underwent emergency operation after she was struck in the head by a stray bullet fired from a nearby military shooting range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, South Korea’s military similarly suspended live-fire drills and training flights after fighter jets accidentally dropped bombs on a village<\/a> in Pocheon city, injuring nearly 30 civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BBC: South Korea’s military has halted all shooting drills involving small firearms – including weapons like rifles or handguns – after a child was struck by a suspected stray bullet at a playground in Daegu city. The elementary schoolgirl was taken to hospital after being struck near the neck on Monday afternoon by an object suspected to be a bullet. She has since been discharged, local media reported. The playground was located about 1.5km (0.9mi) away from a military shooting range, and a shooting drill had taken place at the time of the incident, authorities said. Officials say they are… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55522,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55520\/revisions\/55522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}