During another joint drill by South Korea and the US in 2022, troops fired a short-range ballistic missile which malfunctioned and crashed on a golf course in the military base. While the warhead did not explode, it still burst into flames and sent panic rippling across residents in the area.

More than a dozen people were injured and houses were damaged after South Korean fighter jets accidentally dropped several bombs on South Korea's city of Pocheon on March 6.

A South Korean fighter jet accidentally dropped bombs on a civilian area during a training exercise Thursday, injuring more than a dozen people, according to local news reports.

Seven people in South Korea were injured, four of them seriously, after a fighter jet accidentally dropped eight bombs in a civilian district during a live-fire military exercise. The incident involving the Air Force KF-16 aircraft took place at around 10:04 local time (01:04 GMT) in the city of Pocheon, near the border with North Korea.

By Ju-min Park and Hyunsu Yim POCHEON (Reuters) -Eight people were injured in South Korea on Thursday after bombs dropped by an Air Force jet landed in a civilian district, damaging houses and a church during military exercises in Pocheon,