Korean Iceland residents describe terror

Reuters A resident surveys damage on Yeonpyeong, peeled Tuesday by North Korea in one of the most serious incidents since the Korea war.

INCHEON, South Korea - as North Korean artillery shells popped in Kwan young-hee's started small island village on Tuesday afternoon, grabbed her phone and ran for my life.

Associated press A train station TV screen in Seoul shows smoke pouring from Yeonpyeong Island Tuesday.

"The noise was so loud, the whole House was broken window zittern.Alle," who filled with dozens of their neighbours in a specific civil defense bunker as the bombing said Mrs Kwan continued.

Two civilians and two Marines from the South Korean were approximately one hour barrage, which is about rained 170 bowls on South Korea Yeonpyeong Iceland killed according to the Government in Seoul. It also shattered, the aura of peace which denied an environment that seemed far away for many inhabitants of contradictions, despite the proximity island waters and the long-standing presence of South Korean troops.

European Pressphoto Agency emergency services personnel inspect check entitled upon damage to Yeonpyeong handed out Island Wednesday in a photo of South Korean officials.

On Wednesday morning, Mrs Kwan and nearly all the island's other civilian residents - which make most of a lively fishing and agriculture - were evacuated on the South Korean Coast Guard vessel.

The villagers, which in the port city of Incheon Wednesday afternoon arrived, described scenes of destruction.Shells started fires, which quickly spread burning houses, said.

Associated press Yeonpyeong inhabitants, arriving in Incheon Wednesday.

"Nothing like this has ever happened."""It was such a peaceful place,"said Ms. Kwan, 47 years old.""Now I will go back."

South Korean television broadcast pictures of the destroyed village show the toll the barrage on civilian buildings, both on the island took military base.

He says Cha sang IK and his brother moved to Yeonpyeong while the Korea war where effort carnage sweep says the Korean peninsula to escape before almost six Jahrzehnten.Er, he never expected the tension between the two Koreas with such violence in his small village on an island of about 1,200 inhabitants would break out.

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"Mr. Cha, 75, said that he and his wife in your backyard make kimchi, a sauerkraut dish that is were a staple of the Korean food when the shells began to fall."One was taken of the neighbor houses.Then my house caught fire, ", he says."

Mr. Cha, said he and his wife with nothing more than the clothes on your back escape.

Raw young OK, 74, said you harvest was oysters on the beach, if you was rocked by a series of explosions."" It was everywhere, fire,"she said."It burned removes all houses."Only specific columns are still standing."

AFP/Getty Images A resident surveys damage on Yeonpyeong, peeled Tuesday by North Korea in one of the most serious incidents since the Korea war.

Villagers, you said in concrete defence bunkers a cold night said verbracht.Diejenigen emerged after darkness fell, saw fires raging from the Kontrolle.Das military handed out some cookies and Soda.Andernfalls many said they had arrived nothing to eat until you in Incheon.

Despite life close to the North where hostility towards the South has waxed and waned, since 1953 Armistice ended, said villagers the island was a peaceful place.

"" I have need not give to much thought to North Korea","said Ms. Kwan."We are working in the field.""We think much about politics."

On Wednesday afternoon as 11-year-old Park SA am sobbing in the bath house used as temporary accommodation for some villagers of Yeonpyeong wird.Er separated from his mother got.

When the fire started, said the young teacher children inhabit civil defence Schutzhütten.Er said he spent hours South Korean marine Sergeant pressed into dark fear for the safety of his father, stationed on the island.

""We did nothing to you but attacked us,"said the young, who was later reunited, with its Mutter.Sein father remains in use on Yeonpyeong."He said "when I grow, I want a soldier like my dad, to be".

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