Korean dies after falling into Negros ravine | Global News

Korean dies after falling into Negros ravine

By: - Correspondent / @carlagomezINQ
/ 09:57 PM August 18, 2016

Ravine (INQUIRER FILE PHOTO/CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)

Ravine (INQUIRER FILE PHOTO/CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)

BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occidental — A South Korean tourist died on Thursday morning after falling into a ravine at the Mambukal Resort in Barangay Minoyan, Murcia town, Negros Occidental.

Kim Kyunggung, 64, and a teacher by profession in South Korea, was declared dead on arrival at the Dr. Pablo O. Torre Memorial Hospital in Bacolod City, Senior Supt. William Señoron, provincial police director of Negros Occidental.

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Police investigations showed that Kim,  two other South Koreans identified as Lee Luke and Lee Guang and a tour guide, were trekking up to the third falls of the Mambukal Resort about 9:45 a.m. when he slipped and fell into a ravine.

He was immediately rescued by the tour guide and members of the Mambukal resort search and rescue team but died upon reaching the hospital.  SFM

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