South Korea Exchanges Fire With North Korea Thursday Aug 20,2015

 

South Korea's military fired dozens of shells Thursday Aug 20,2015 at rival North Korea after theNorth lobbed a single artillery round at a South Korean border town, the South's Defense Ministry said.

The ministry said in a statement that its artillery landed at the place where North Korea had fired its shell.

There were no other immediate details from the military, but it appeared that North Korea did not respond to South Korea's returned fire.

About 80 residents in the South Korean town where the shell fell, Yeoncheon, were evacuated to underground bunkers, and authorities urged other residents to evacuate, a Yeoncheon official said, requesting anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media. He said there were no reports of injuries or damage in Yeoncheon