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Y'day(10.21) afternoon in Incheon/Bupyeong: migrant workers, citizens and members of the Buddhist Jogye Order(resp. its Social Labour Committee) mourned...

...the recent death of a Burmese migrant worker, who fell head-first out of the window of a makeshift cafeteria that was eight meters above the ground at a construction site in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province, Aug. 22, while running away from a sudden police raid. Another migrant worker who witnessed the fall said he was not able to land on his feet because an officer grabbed his legs before the jump. He died of brain damage 17 days later...

A few days ago(10.14) Korea Times published the following photo...

PS. Similar deaths have occurred in the past, mostly during sudden on-site police raids. Some 80 migrant workers have sustained injuries during these raids since 2008, according to the Ministry of Justice. Ten have died, most of them after falls..(source: K. Times)

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