{"id":28463,"date":"2026-03-22T13:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=28463"},"modified":"2026-03-22T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:16:13","slug":"south-korean-military-halts-small-firearms-drills-after-stray-bullet-strikes-young-girl-on-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=28463","title":{"rendered":"South Korean military halts small firearms drills after stray bullet strikes young girl on playground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\">\n<div class=\"mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"infobox noprint desktop-only\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right; width: 200px; background: #edf7ff; border: solid #666666 1px; padding: 0px; font-size: x-small; clear:right;\">\n<figure class=\"mw-halign-center\" typeof=\"mw:File\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/File:Blue_lightbar_(fire_and_rescue).jpg\" class=\"mw-file-description\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9c\/Blue_lightbar_%28fire_and_rescue%29.jpg\/250px-Blue_lightbar_%28fire_and_rescue%29.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"mw-file-element\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9c\/Blue_lightbar_%28fire_and_rescue%29.jpg\/330px-Blue_lightbar_%28fire_and_rescue%29.jpg 1.5x, https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9c\/Blue_lightbar_%28fire_and_rescue%29.jpg\/500px-Blue_lightbar_%28fire_and_rescue%29.jpg 2x\" data-file-width=\"1630\" data-file-height=\"1086\"\/><\/a><figcaption\/><\/figure>\n<p>Related articles<\/p>\n<p>Collaborate!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong class=\"published\"><span id=\"publishDate\" class=\"value-title\" title=\"2026-03-22\"\/>Sunday, March 22, 2026<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"Z3988\" style=\"display:none\" title=\"ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rfr_id=rfr_id=info:sid\/en.wikinews.org:User%3ADendodge&amp;rft_id=info:sid\/en.wikinews.org:South_Korean_military_halts_small_firearms_drills_after_stray_bullet_strikes_young_girl_on_playground&amp;rft.atitle=South+Korean+military+halts+small+firearms+drills+after+stray+bullet+strikes+young+girl+on+playground&amp;rft.jtitle=Wikinews&amp;rft.date=2026-03-22&amp;rft.aucorp=Wikinews+contributors&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.rights=CC-BY+2.5&amp;rft.identifier=%2F%2Fen.wikinews.org%2Fwiki%2FSouth_Korean_military_halts_small_firearms_drills_after_stray_bullet_strikes_young_girl_on_playground&amp;rft.artnum=-\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, officials for the <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Korean_Army\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:South Korean Army\">South Korean Army<\/a><\/span> said at a press conference that they were suspending all scheduled drills involving smaller firearms such as rifles and handguns. The decision was made in response to an incident earlier in the week on Monday that resulted in a young girl at a children playground in <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daegu\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Daegu\">Daegu<\/a><\/span> being injured near the neck by an alleged stray bullet from a military drill at nearby military facility. Her injuries were not life-threatening and she was released from the hospital. Her name was not released to the general public.\n<\/p>\n<p>Investigations into the circumstances leading up the incident were said to be underway. The incident raised questions regarding the military&#8217;s practice of conducting shooting drills in close proximity to civilian territory. A spokesperson for the army confirmed that a firearms drill had indeed been taking place at the same time the girl reported being struck. The incident came a year after the South Korean Army accidentally bombed a small village near the <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Korean_border\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:North Korean border\">North Korean border<\/a><\/span>, injuring 30 civilians, while conducting a drill with US forces.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nParsed by mw&#8208;web.codfw.main&#8208;64847965b5&#8208;wxgf5\nCached time: 20260322123709\nCache expiry: 604800\nReduced expiry: true\nComplications: [vary&#8208;revision&#8208;sha1, prevent&#8208;selective&#8208;update]\nCPU time usage: 0.158 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.257 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 1228\/1000000\nRevision size: 2373\/2097152 bytes\nPost&#8208;expand include size: 33799\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 12223\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 23\/100\nExpensive parser function count: 8\/500\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0\/20\nUnstrip post&#8208;expand size: 4441\/5000000 bytes\nLua time usage: 0.040\/10.000 seconds\nLua memory usage: 1621775\/52428800 bytes\nNumber of Wikibase entities loaded: 0\/500\n--><br \/>\n<!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%  215.459      1 -total\n 64.93%  139.907      1 Template:Disasters_and_accidents\n 63.99%  137.871      2 Template:Infobox\n 63.10%  135.950      1 Template:Infobox\/p1\n 62.12%  133.844      1 Template:Infobox\/p2\n 41.30%   88.982     15 Template:Evalx\n 33.62%   72.444     14 Template:Infobox\/lookup\n 26.20%   56.440      1 Template:Infosection\n 19.09%   41.139      1 Template:InfoboxStart\n 17.53%   37.776      1 Template:Publish\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key enwikinews:stable-pcache:3085450:|#|:idhash:canonical and timestamp 20260322123709 and revision id 5000347. 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