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“I was at my house and I suddenly heard a ‘bang,’” said a 35-year-old Yeonpyeong resident. "I went out to see what was going on and I saw all my neighborhood turned into a sea of fire..."

24 hours after KPA's attack Yeonpyeong village looked like Jabalia (refugee camp in Gaza/Palestine) after a massive strike by the IDF!

Today's Korea Times reported the following:

North Korea’s firing of artillery shells on Yeongpyeong caused severe property damage to the island community, as illustrated by photos of the devastated houses and buildings in the otherwise peaceful fishing island.

The artillery attack burned scores of houses to the ground...

With several wildfires continuing to rage on, due to a lack of fire-extinguishing equipment and personnel, more homes and other properties will likely be destroyed, inflicting significant monetary damage on the residents.

Firefighters and residents battled a wildfire caused by the North’s attack Tuesday, which burned substantial portions of the hills and farmlands on the island. But they were not able to contain the fire entirely because of a shortage of equipment and manpower.

A dozen homes were also unable to be saved, with some 1,700 island residents scrambling to either take shelter in an underground bunker or flee to the mainland.

The artillery attack left nearly 70 percent of the forests and fields on the rural island charred, according to Incheon Metropolitan City...

Related stuff:

☞ [Photos] N.K.'s bombardment on island (K. Herald/Yonhap)

☞ A ‘terror’ island, as residents take cover in shelling (JoongAng Ilbo)

☞ South Koreans wake up to possibility of attack on capital (Guardian)

☞ Koreas on 'brink of war' because of Seoul, Pyongyang says (CNN)