South Korea tram accident harms handfuls in Seoul

Reports say the train was leaving Sangwangsimni station when it was smashed from behind

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Many individuals have been harmed after two tram autos impacted in the South Korean capital Seoul.

Upwards of 170 individuals were harmed - and a number were taken to clinic for medicine - yet nobody endured genuine wounds, authorities said.

The mischance happened after one train ran into the again of an alternate that had halted at a station in east Seoul.

It comes as the country keeps on grieving the passings of about 300 individuals in a month ago ship catastrophe.

The Sewol ship sank with 476 individuals on board - the vast majority of them secondary school scholars and instructors - off South Korea on 16 April.

The crisis reaction to the fiasco has been intensely scrutinized as excessively abate, and has prompted the abdication of the executive and an open statement of regret from President Park Geun-hye.

Friday's accident happened at around 15:30 nearby time (06:30 GMT) at the Sangwangsimni Station on one of Seoul's real tram lines, the South Korean news org Yonhap reports.

Yonhap said the stationary train had halted in view of mechanical issues when the second prepare ran into the once again of it.

A witness said numerous travelers disregarded a locally available advertisement letting them know to stay inside and constrained the entryways open, getting away on to the tracks.

One authority said 170 individuals had grumbled of feeling ache after the mischance, and 32 were taken to a close-by doctor's facility, however nobody was genuinely harmed, the Associated Press reports.