North Korean leader Kim Jong-il passed through the station several hours before the explosion as he returned from a meeting in China. It was suggested that the explosion might have been an assassination attempt, but South Korean intelligence services believed that it was an accident. The Red Cross reported that 1.850 houses and buildings had been destroyed and another 6.350 had been damaged. (22 April 2004)
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Monday 3rd of May 1982 (x) — Serial killer Michel Bellen is released after serving 17 years of a life sentence. Six months later Bellen strangled a woman in Leuven.
Saturday 1st of May 1982 (x) — Mass murderer Freddy Horion escapes with cellmate Albertus Hartman from prison. Horion was captured in Haarlem, Netherlands on 9 June.
Saturday 12th of May 1984 (x) — Serial killer Michel Bellen has his second death-sentence commuted to life-imprisonment.