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A group of men in their 20s ambushed a patrol near a coastal guard post on the East Sea coast in Gangwon Province on Wednesday night, taking one K1 and two K2 assault rifles and 30 rounds of live ammunition.
The guard post commander, a first lieutenant identified by his family name of Gwon, and his signalman, a corporal identified as Lee, were overpowered at 10:10 p.m. by men in a black Hyundai Grandeur who stripped them of guns, two magazines of 15 rounds each, a P-96K walkie-talkie and a mobile phone.
The Army provisionally concluded the assailants are not North Korean spies since they spoke South Korean accents, and the ambush did not suggest professional training. The assailants fled without killing the soldiers and there was no damage to fences near the guard post, it said.
The police and Army suspect the assailants were common bandits who intended to use the guns in robberies or similar crimes. Investigators are trying to trace the vehicle.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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