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World IN BRIEF : SOUTH KOREA : Search Resumes for Victims of Collapse

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

After two days of angry rampages by relatives of people still missing from last month’s mall collapse, workers went back to the site in Seoul to resume their search but found no more bodies. About 134 people are still listed as missing after the five-story building caved in June 29, killing 459 people and injuring 900. Rescue workers had packed up their tools, saying their job was done. But relatives of those still missing charged the search was done sloppily and staged a sit-in to demand the city keep looking for their loved ones. About 80 family members, some with steel pipes and shovels, kicked and punched police Saturday, injuring three officers. Sunday morning, the protesters set off a series of explosions and set fire to two police trucks.

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