<p>Seoul: At least eight people were hurt on Thursday after a shell was dropped on a civilian district, damaging houses and a church during live-fire military exercises in Pocheon, South Korea, a fire official said.</p><p>An official at Gyeonggi-do Bukbu Fire Services said out of the eight people who had been wounded, four were seriously hurt.</p><p>Following this, the South Korea military told to halt live-fire drills pending further investigation.</p><p>This accident was reportedly a result of the pilot error, and the misfire was caused by mistaken coordinates, as per Korea's military.</p><p>Pocheon is about 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of Seoul and near the heavily militarised border with North Korea.</p><p>Fire officials suspected that the shell dropped in the town was from ongoing live-fire joint military exercises conducted by South Korea and the United States, the official said.</p>.Russian missile attack kills two, seriously injures many in Ukraine's Kryvyi Rih.<p>The official did not have further details about what type of shell it might be, but said fire authorities suspected a fighter jet might have misfired during the exercises.</p><p>Photographs shared by news agency News1 that it said were from the scene showed a badly damaged house with rubble strewn on the ground next to it.</p><p>South Korea's defence ministry was not immediately available for comment.</p><p>The ministry said earlier on Thursday that South Korea and US forces were holding their first joint live-fire exercises in Pocheon which were linked to annual military drills due to start next week. </p>
<p>Seoul: At least eight people were hurt on Thursday after a shell was dropped on a civilian district, damaging houses and a church during live-fire military exercises in Pocheon, South Korea, a fire official said.</p><p>An official at Gyeonggi-do Bukbu Fire Services said out of the eight people who had been wounded, four were seriously hurt.</p><p>Following this, the South Korea military told to halt live-fire drills pending further investigation.</p><p>This accident was reportedly a result of the pilot error, and the misfire was caused by mistaken coordinates, as per Korea's military.</p><p>Pocheon is about 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of Seoul and near the heavily militarised border with North Korea.</p><p>Fire officials suspected that the shell dropped in the town was from ongoing live-fire joint military exercises conducted by South Korea and the United States, the official said.</p>.Russian missile attack kills two, seriously injures many in Ukraine's Kryvyi Rih.<p>The official did not have further details about what type of shell it might be, but said fire authorities suspected a fighter jet might have misfired during the exercises.</p><p>Photographs shared by news agency News1 that it said were from the scene showed a badly damaged house with rubble strewn on the ground next to it.</p><p>South Korea's defence ministry was not immediately available for comment.</p><p>The ministry said earlier on Thursday that South Korea and US forces were holding their first joint live-fire exercises in Pocheon which were linked to annual military drills due to start next week. </p>